《小城池》是儿童文学作家薛涛的中短篇小说集,收录了其《小城池》《随蒲公英一起飞的女孩》《正午的植物园》《火车远去》等经典作品8篇。其中《小城池》主人公坚韧的女孩沙漏,孤独而倔强地守护着太阳镇在城市进化过程中幸存的*后一块城池。作者用细腻的笔触描写了父母离异后,跟着父亲长大的女孩沙漏的成长心路历程。故事弥漫着淡淡的忧伤,但沙漏的善良和坚持,对自然的保护和热爱,也会深深地感染每一位读者。薛涛的灵感来源于他生活过的土地,他的故事语言优美、情感真挚,为孩子们勾勒出属于他们自己的小城池。《小城池》是儿童文学作家薛涛的中短篇小说集,收录了其《小城池》《随蒲公英一起飞的女孩》《正午的植物园》《火车远去》等经典作品8篇。其中《小城池》主人公坚韧的女孩沙漏,孤独而倔强地守护着太阳镇在城市进化过程中幸存的*后一块城池。作者用细腻的笔触描写了父母离异后,跟着父亲长大的女孩沙漏的成长心路历程。故事弥漫着淡淡的忧伤,但沙漏的善良和坚持,对自然的保护和热爱,也会深深地感染每一位读者。薛涛的灵感来源于他生活过的土地,他的故事语言优美、情感真挚,为孩子们勾勒出属于他们自己的小城池。
The Small Fortress is a collection of novellas written by children literature writer Xue Tao, which includes his eight representative works such as The Small Fortress, The Departing Train and Noon in the Botanical Garden. The heroine of The Small Fortress, is a tenacious girl named Shallo, who stubbornly and lonely protects the last fortress in Sun Town during its procession of urbanization. The author depicts Shallos growth under the care of his father after her parents divorce with delicate words. The whole story is with an air of light blue, but Shallos perseverance and kindness, as well as her protection and love to Nature, will move every reader deeply. Xue Taos inspiration comes from the land he lives. With elegant words and sincere feelings, he creates a small fortress for children themselves.
關於作者:
薛涛,中国作家协会会员,中国作协儿童文学委员会委员。主要作品有《小城池》《白银河》《九月的冰河》等。作品曾获陈伯吹儿童文学奖、冰心儿童文学新作奖、宋庆龄儿童文学奖、全国优秀儿童文学奖、国家文化部蒲公英奖、中国人口文化奖等多项文学奖。
Xue Tao is a member of the China Writers Association and the Childrens Literature Committee of the China Writers Association. His works include The Small Fortress, White Milky Way and Ice Water in September, etc. He has won the Prize of the China Writers Association for Excellent Childrens Literature, the Soong Ching-Ling Prize for Childrens Literature, the New Prize of the Bing Xin Prize for Childrens Literature, the Chen Bochui Prize for Childrens Literature, the Dandelion Prize of the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Population and Culture Prize.
目錄:
01 The Girl Flying with Dandelions
08 The Flute Melody over the Haystack Lot
16 The Yellow Scarf
18 The Departing Train
30 A Small Station
45 The Ringing Bell
59 Noon in the Botanical Garden
108 The Small Fortress
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Preface
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Vicissitudes do mark human affairs always;
Time comes, time goes, thus there are old as well as modern days.
In Natures bosom remains the historical site;
My friends and I now, in our turn, climb to the heights.
Tang Dynasty: Meng Haoran
Modern Chinese literature already has a history of 100 years, so does
modern Chinese childrens literature. This has left us with a great number of
famous sites in the spiritual field and led us to ascend and appreciate the
boundless scenery of the literature world.
In this globalized, networked and informationalized era, it is not only
possible but also necessary for Chinese literature to become integrated
into world literature and spread out across the world. Since the start of the
21st century, China has attracted much attention by becoming the second
largest economy in the world. The craze for China, craze for the Orient
and craze for sinology are increasingly heated up, which demonstrate that
Chinese culture is gradually being granted its due status and value in the
world culture. At the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Beijing International Book
Fair, both held once a year, the translated introduction and copyright output
of Chinese literature play a significant role; the China Writers Association
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organizes writer delegations annually to go around the world for exchanges
on literature; famous universities in China such as Peking University, Beijing
Normal University, Fudan University and Nanjing University hold a variety
of seminars on world literature and comparative literature each year and
dispatch professors and experts as visiting scholars; the Confucius Institutes
around the world have become friendly envoys disseminating Chinese
culture. The key focus is introducing Chinese culture and literature to the
world, and that includes Chinese childrens literature.
Chinese childrens literature is deeply rooted in the fertile cultural soil of
the 5,000-year Chinese nation inherited from oracle bone inscriptions. It
picks up the remote myth totem like In Pursuit of the Sun and Bird Jingwei
Trying to Fill the Sea, and carries forward the treasury of folk fairy tales and
songs with colorful agricultural civilization since the Qin 221 BC206 BC
and Han 206 BC220 AD dynasties. After entering modern times, with an
open mind, it has absorbed new elements and patterns of foreign childrens
literature represented by Europe and America, thus developing into the
modern Chinese childrens literature we see today. From the beginning of
the 20th century, Chinese childrens literature now presents a splendid sight
after strenuous efforts and intelligent creation by five generations of writers,
including Ye Shengtao, Bing Xin, Mao Dun, Zheng Zhenduo and Feng Zikai
first generation; Zhang Tianyi, Yan Wenjing, Chen Bochui, He Yi and
Jin Jin second generation; Ren Rongrong, Ren Dalin, Hong Xuntao, Ge
Cuilin, Sun Youjun and Jin Bo third generation; Ge Bing, Zhang Zhilu, Gao
Hongbo, Cao Wenxuan, Qin Wenjun, Shen Shixi and Huang Beijia fourth
generation; Yang Hongying, Tang Sulan and Xue Tao fifth generation.
Today, Chinas status as a large country producing childrens publications
is forged by outstanding performance with 600 million copies of childrens
books published each year, more than 80,000 categories in the retail market
and the annual sales of over 8 billion yuan. Here, childrens literature books
are dominant products. Excellent childrens literature works in China win
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warm praise from young readers. These works include Cao Wenxuans novel
Grass House which has gone through 130 printings over a period of 10 years;
Yang Hongyings Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao has published 20 million in
total; Childrens Literature published in Beijing has a monthly circulation
of some 1.1 million copies, making it the largest print run of a pure literature
publication in China.
Childrens literature books also include E-books, and audio-video ones.
Various forms of reading activities organized all over the country have
promoted reading of the classics, early-stage reading, parent-child reading,
class reading, picture book reading, allowing childrens literature to move
into the spiritual world for millions upon millions of children China now has
367 million juveniles.
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China is now a country with the door open to the outside world. Chinese
childrens literature with distinctive modern features has to go out to the
world and children of different complexions also need to know and have
an influence on Chinese childrens literature. It is therefore necessary and
entirely proper to present Best Chinese Childrens Literature Chinese and
foreign language versions, which contains the most original, influential and
typical childrens literature works in contemporary China. Publication of this
series is believed to have multi-faceted realistic meaning and cultural value
for Chinese childrens literature to go out into the world.
First, the world will get to know China.
Contemporary China can be understood through the Great Wall, the
Palace Museum, the Terra-Cotta Warriors, Peking Opera, martial arts,
pandas, the Birds Nest and the Water Cube and other facilities built for the
2008 Olympic Games, the Three Gorges Dam, atomic bomb, hydrogen
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bomb and artificial satellite, high-speed railways and manned spacecrafts.
However, its far from enough. China should also be understood through
its literature that profoundly expresses the realistic life, thinking, emotions
and psychologies of todays Chinese people. The best way to know the future
development of China is through its childrens literature. This is what grownups
write for the younger generation and it contains spiritual dialogues and
value expectations between two generations. Therefore, first-class childrens
literature works in contemporary China can make the world understand the
realistic life and mental condition of children in China as well as their ideals,
pursuits, dreams, emotions and living status; the world can also get to know
how Chinese culture and society express requirements and expectations for
the next generation through childrens literature works, and get a view of the
influence and meaning of Chinas cultural and social changes today on the
foundation for the humanity of the next generation. Lu Xun, a major writer
of modern Chinese literature, once said, The status of childhood decides the
future fate. The current Chinese childrens literature naturally reflects the
trend of China in the future.
Second, children around the world can get familiar with and befriend
each other......