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"Lonely Seventeen" Author: Bai Xianyong Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
"Lonely Seventeen" Author: Bai Xianyong Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This time my early short stories were published in a collection, and I had the opportunity to reread those works from more than ten years ago. As I read, I couldn't help but wonder: I was so naive before, and at that age, I didn't know where all those strange ideas came from. ...
When I first came to the United States, I couldn't write at all because the environment had changed so drastically. I was so confused that I had no idea where to start. At Christmas at the end of the year, the school dormitory was closed, so I went to Chicago to spend Christmas and stayed alone in a small hotel by Lake Michigan. One evening, I walked to the lake. Snow was falling from the sky, and the sky was vast. The lake was vast. The skyscrapers along the shore were lit up with thousands of lights. Christmas gospels were ringing around me, and everywhere was the scene of the last years. I stood on the embankment, and suddenly I felt a strange emotion in my heart. That feeling was like sadness and joy, a kind of thought about the vastness of the world. In an instant, the chaotic state of my mind became clear and clear. Looking back suddenly, the 25-year-old me became a blur and gradually disappeared. I felt reborn, and suddenly, many years were added to my heart.
Huang Tingjian's poem: "Ten years away from home, my heart has become old." It doesn't have to be ten years, one year is enough...
——Bai Xianyong
About the Author · · · · · ·
Bai Xianyong is a novelist, essayist, critic and playwright. He was born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1937. He is the son of the famous general Bai Chongxi. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University and received a master's degree in literary creation from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has written short story collections "Lonely Seventeen Years Old", "Taipei People" and "The New Yorker", novel "The Wicked Son", essay collections "The Tree Is Still Like This", "Looking Back Suddenly", "Star Cafe" and "The Sixth Finger", stage play script "A Dream in the Garden", film scripts "The Last Night of Lady Jin", "Sister Yuqing", "Lonely Love Flower" and "The Last Nobleman", etc. He has reorganized the Ming Dynasty opera "The Peony Pavilion" by Tang Xianzu and "The Jade Hairpin" by Gao Lian, and wrote a biography of his father Bai Chongxi, "The Photo Album of General Bai Chongxi". After 2004, he invested heavily in the production and performance of the Kunqu opera classic "The Peony Pavilion". The youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" has been performed more than 200 times so far, causing a great sensation in the Chinese world and launching an opportunity for the revival of Kunqu opera on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
