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"The Tree Remains the Same" Author: Pai Hsien-yung Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
"The Tree Remains the Same" Author: Pai Hsien-yung Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"The Tree Still Is Like This" is a collection of Pai Hsien-yung's selected prose, mainly including his articles recalling his personal experiences and interactions with relatives and friends. Among them, "The Tree Still Is Like This", which commemorates a deceased friend, has been deeply saddened for six years and is called "a song of life completed with blood and tears, and the purest feelings in the world." There are also two new works about friends: "Searching for That Bodhi Tree", a journey of painter Xi Song to cultivate Buddhism, and "Practicing Bodhisattva Path", a work by Du Cong, who rescued tens of thousands of AIDS orphans. It can be seen what Pai Hsien-yung has been thinking about in recent years.
Most of the works in the book were completed after Pai Hsien-yung turned fifty. Dong Qiao was surprised that he had become like an old monk who was free and let go, letting a fallen flower silently radiate its momentary brilliance in his palm. The works written about his close friend Wang Guoxiang and his third sister Xianming are plain and contain magnificent and compassionate stories. Guilin, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Taipei, cultural nostalgia overlap, and it is difficult to find a place to return to. In the fan magazine "Modern Literature" where he devoted his efforts and youth, Pai Hsien-yung made friends through writing and remained loyal to them for life. He also cares about the difficulties of young people's growth and the struggles and courage of AIDS patients. The joy of the prosperity of life and the reluctance to part with the loss of life, Pai Hsien-yung's naive persistence and helplessness are transformed into a real world of love in his prose.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Bai Xianyong is a novelist, essayist, critic and playwright. He was born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1937. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University and obtained a master's degree in literary creation from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. His novels have been translated into many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean, and have countless readers at home and abroad. He has written short story collections such as "Lonely Seventeen Years Old", "Taipei People" and "The New Yorker", novel "Bad Son", essay collections such as "Looking Back Suddenly", "Star Cafe", "The Sixth Finger", "The Tree Is Still Like This", film scripts such as "The Last Night of Lady Jin", "Sister Yuqing", "Lonely Love Flower", "The Last Nobleman", etc. He has reorganized the opera "The Peony Pavilion" by the great Ming Dynasty playwright Tang Xianzu and "The Jade Hairpin" by Gao Lian, and wrote biographies of his father Bai Chongxi and his family.
