"One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" Author: Liu Zhenyun Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: Changjiang New Century

The story of "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" is very simple. The first half of the novel is about the past: Wu Moxi, who is lonely and helpless, loses his only adopted daughter who can "talk to him". In order to find her, he walks out of Yanjin; the second half of the novel is about the present: Niu Aiguo, the son of Wu Moxi's adopted daughter, also walks to Yanjin to get rid of loneliness and find a friend who can "talk to him". It takes a hundred years to go back and forth. Most of the characters in the book are ordinary people at the bottom of China, but there is an Italian priest named Lao Zhan.

Liu Zhenyun, male, was born in May 1958 in Yanjin, Xinxiang, Henan. He joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1973. He was demobilized in 1978 and became a middle school teacher in his hometown. In the same year, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University. After graduating in 1982, he worked at the Farmers' Daily. From 1988 to 1991, he studied for a master's degree at Beijing Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Literature. He began to create in 1982, and after 1987, he published in "People's Literature", "Ta Pu", "Xinbing Lian", "Headman", "Unit", "Officialdom", "A Place of Chicken Feathers", "Official", "Reviewing 1942" and other "Unit Series" describing urban society and "Officialdom Series" of cadres' lives, which caused a strong response. In these works, he quickly showed his potential to become a great writer, established a civilian position in his creation, focused on history, power and people's livelihood issues, but did not lose the concise and direct white-drawing technique, and was therefore called a "new realist" writer. Among them, "Ta Pu" won the 1987-1988 National Excellent Short Story Award.