"The Dream of One Hundred Chinese Children" is a fantasy children's novel. These are the dreams that 100 Chinese children, from four to fifteen years old, have had, are having, or are about to have. The dreams of these 100 Chinese children range from different ages, nationalities and regions, ranging from "fruity milk" and "colorful sun" as young as four years old, to girls taking "slimming pills" and looking for the "Devil's Triangle" in Bermuda. "The secret boy. From young football players to junior high school students looking for savages, from Korean girls to Tibetan boys and Dai monks, they all play the role of sleepwalkers in Hong You's book, decorating contemporary times with their own unique dreams. The lives of Chinese children.
Table of Contents: (Excerpt)
Four-year-old dream/ Fruity milk/ Endless slide/ Sweet rock, sweet mountain/ Colorful sun/ Overgrown Bird's birch tree/Twelve-year-old dream/Hurry up and save the sunshine/Black tiger, my black tiger/Beautiful little mouse/Teeth are faster than sickles/People and trees/Fifteen-year-old dream/Hang in mid-air Football Star/The Sun is a Big Spider/Red Fox on the Snowfield/Flying to the Goddess Peak/The Mystery of Drunken Valley
Dong Hongyou, male, was born in Wuhan in 1950. He is currently the vice chairman of Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of Wuhan Writers Association, and a national first-class writer. He is the author of four volumes of "Collected Works of Dong Hongyou", the novel "Dreams of One Hundred Chinese Children", the novel collection "Fairy Tales of the Yangtze River", etc., the poetry collection "Sail Shadow", the essay collection "Ode on the White Wall", etc. He has won the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award from the Chinese Writers Association three times, the National Five One Project Award from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China twice, the China Book Award, the Bing Xin Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the Hubei Province Qu Yuan Literary Award, and the Taiwan Golden Dragon Award for Outstanding Children's Books.
The author uses a unique artistic conception to comprehensively and multi-angle describe the growth dreams, childhood dreams and ideal dreams of 100 Chinese children of different ages, regions, nationalities and family backgrounds in the 1980s and 1990s. On the premise of establishing novel narrative as the basic stylistic feature, the author fully draws on and mobilizes the fantasy of fairy tales, the lyricism of prose, the poetic language and the realistic style of documentary literature, and makes useful attempts in the art form.