This collection of miniature stories covers a wide array of subjects
whiledeploying a multiplicity of writing skills. These eighty-eight
distinctive yetseamless vignettes act as a condensed archive of recent
great social reformsin China. through their small yet vivid sketches,
portrayals and reproductionsof Chinese people's lives and feelings. The
many authors, with profound.incisive thinking and vision, have been
witness to and experienced neareverything in Chinese society, so they
have every reason and every capacityto superbly and deftly accomplish
this challenging literary mission. ——Bing Feng These moments and
fragments of Chinese life are the "molecules" and "atoms"that make up
the larger world. They are as tiny and yet as real as the dust-motes and
raindrops. ——Li Jingze The "miniature story" is a new literary
genre emerging and flourishing in anew age in China. Great figures and
ordinary citizens alike with their penshave forged succinct and humorous
micro-reflections of the larger picture oflife. for readers to delight
in and savor. ——Pan Kaixiong
About Author Bing Feng, a pen name of Zhao Zhi. was bornin
1965. He is now a member of the ChineseWriters' Association, and
President and Editor-in-Chief of Weixing Xiaoshuo （ MiniatureStories）
magazine. He is also Chairman of www.zuojiawang.com, a website for
Chinese writers.His fiction, prose, poetry, literary
criticism,reportages and other writings have appearedin People's
Literature, People's Daily, PoetryMonthly, and other periodicals. His
publishedworks are Red Shadows of Birds and Observingthe Mountains While
Outdoors （poetry）, BlueRain）' Season （prose poetry）, City of
Tenderness（short stories）, Cloudless Blue Sky （longreportages）, and
Dialogue with Life （informalessays）. Bing Feng has also been chief
editorof ten books, including Top ContemporaryChinese Miniature Stories.
New Century LiteraryAnthology, Dictionary of Chinese Dancers, aswell as
annual collections of Top MiniatureStories in 2003 and 2（]04. and
Chinese MiniatureStories of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He
iscurrently working for People's Literature Press.
Table of Contents
Wang Meng 21st Century Chinese Literature m Points of Departure Bing Feng Miniature Literary Sketches of Chinese People LianS XiaosbenS The Recruit Ab Cbeng My Classmate Zhou Bi Sbumin Purple Human Outline Cben Jiangong Meddlesome Man at His Sister's Funeral Liu Xinwu Please Stay Wang Meng Mailbox Jiang Zilong Caregivers Teng Gang How Butterflies Are Drawn to Flowers Bei Bei Love in 1999 Qin Yong The Example An Yong The Door Bell Hang Ying The Carpet Cben Yu Time Ye Yanbin Sworn Buddies Ai Xin Can't See Mama's Shoes Guan Hong A Hairclip under the Pillow Zbou Daxin Necessity Fang Yingwen Receiving a Double Blessing Hong Ke Stepmother Keeps Him from Home Xu Xing One Fallen Leaf Hai Fei Sweet and Sour Love Hu Yan A Benefactor He Cbanan Don't Break a Heart of Gold Lin Xi Father's Home Waiting for Me Li Sbunyi Will You Kiss Me Too? Liu Minyan The Exam Question He Baoguo Annoying Heating Aids Sun Fangyou The Sheepskin Coat Liu Jing Lottery, Lottery Yi Nong "N" Ways to Eat a Fish Liu Liying Bride Duanmi Cai Cbeng Man with a Death Wish Sbi Zbongliang Treating for Dinner Sben Hong Walking out of the Desert Liu Sba The Billionaire's Secret Jiang Huiyan Please Divorce ……
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However, at this moment he is the most miserable one inthe bus. Earlier,
the young soldier had lent his sheepskin overcoat tothe bus driver -
the driver being the only one who knew whereto get help. The bus driver
had at first refused to go, claiming hemight be frozen to death on the
way once he was out there, so thesoldier took off his sheepskin overcoat
and lent it to him withouthesitation... Then, he saw an old man
shivering in scanty clothing and a felthat, while from his nose clear
mucous kept dripping onto his beard.The soldier took off his shorn-wool
hat and offered it to the oldman. Seeing the young soldier's bare head
and crew cut, the old mantried to refuse it, but the young soldier
smiled earnestly and said,"Take it, Elder Uncle. I am young, with a lot
of heat in my body.It's okay." People take it for granted he should certainly help others, afterall, he is a soldier. He believes so too.
