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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.