《ChineseCEL华人文学》2026第3期. ChinaeseCEL华人文学出版社, #26003

This edition of ChineseCEL???? offers a profound exploration of memory, love, and the evolving Chinese identity across generations and geographies. At its heart is Liu Dajun's masterful novella, Mountain Love, Water Sentiment. It follows retired professor??? on an accidental return to the rural village where he was sent "down to the countryside" decades ago. Confronting the lifelong emotional scars and revolutionary zeal of his youth, he must now use his expertise as an environmental scientist to help the same people-and his lost love-grapple with the unintended ecological consequences of their own development dreams.
It's a powerful story of redemption, generational conflict, and the slow work of healing both land and heart. This central narrative is enriched by Zhang Zongzheng's lyrical short story, Transitions, which captures the untamed spirit of a herder's life on the Tianshan grasslands, and Xie Tianhai's chillingly unique tale, Cooking the Ghost. The prose section shimmers with cultural insight, from Le Shan's philosophical travelogue, The Triple Dimensions of the Land of Smiles, which deconstructs the soul of Thailand, to Zhang Jiahui's nostalgic tribute to a pipa mentor in The Fate of the Pipa.
In poetry, Zhang Junbiao's autobiographical long poem My Life is a landmark work-a stark, moving chronicle of a writer's journey from a loess-plateau ox-shed to literary achievement, anchored by the timeless imagery of three poplar trees. Yuan Zhu provides an essential critical companion to Zhang's poem in his essay "Loess Casts the Soul, " while conversations on acclaimed works like The Pomegranate Blossoms Are Red offer further insight into contemporary Chinese letters.
This is a rich collection that speaks to the wanderer and the homebody, the past's weight and the future's fragile promise.??????2026??3?????????????????????????????????????????????·????????????????????????????????????????????????????,?????????,?????????--??????????--?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????,?????????????????????????????;?????????????????????,?????????????????????:????????????????????????????;?????????????????????????????,???????????????????--???????????,??????????????,?????????????????????????????,??????????????????????,???????????????????????,????????????????????????????????????????????????????