Disputes in "Inside the City and Outside the City" (Preface) It should be a happy event that sporadic published novels can one day be combined into a novel.Regarding the publication of this collection, I have mixed feelings about the ups and downs.The main reason is that some of the novels have caused various criticisms and debates. The last few years of the 1970s were eventful for both sides of the Taiwan Strait.Personally, I am more sentimental about the country. When something happens, I am easily agitated, and I often cannot help expressing my opinions.But he has a bald pen and can't write political comments, so he can only incorporate some ideas into novels.Therefore, I, who had always opposed literature serving politics, unknowingly practiced it myself.

It's not a problem to cause trouble when politics is involved, but there is an impromptu novel with no ulterior motives in the first place, which ends up causing the biggest disaster. I've never been sarcastic.One time, I heard something about someone by chance, and when I got home, I had a whim and wrote "Inside and Outside the City" with the impulse to humor him temporarily.I think the title of the article was chosen wrongly, and it made a lot of mistakes, and even made a mistake.Since the publication of the article, praise and criticism have followed, especially misunderstandings.

In the spring of 1980, the American "Overseas Chinese Daily" launched a siege, and later some leftist newspapers in Hong Kong followed suit. Coupled with the reaction from Beijing, it was really massive.But where they attack most is often where the truth is most real, and I, besieged on all sides, remain unmoved. Misunderstandings are different. Last Spring Festival, my husband and I hurriedly drove for more than an hour to visit a friend whom we had not seen for 20 years.After talking happily, the other party suddenly asked me in a heated conversation: I heard that you wrote me into the novel, didn't you?I asked myself, have I never performed a farce of anti-communist and pro-communist like Xiao Jinsheng did?

I was stunned on the spot. People who write novels are supposed to be secretive, and they don't easily name models.At that time, I didn't care about these things, and immediately raised the bottom of the card.Although we solved the mystery for him, our joy on the first day of the new year was washed away. Also last spring, classmate Li Oufan visited Beijing.An old Beijinger specially took him shopping one night.After seven turns and eight turns, he came to an alley. He pointed and whispered: This is the so-and-so alley. Ou Fan asked curiously: Who lives here? It's Huanxiang!

Who is Huanxiang? Hey, it's the regiment leader Lao Hou in "Inside the City and Outside the City"! While Ou Fan was amused, he couldn't help protesting: How can you explain Chen Ruoxi's novel like this?She is creative.The creation of novels is true and false, you can’t check them one by one! I was surprised when I heard it afterwards.I also don't know who this eunuch is, but after questioning, I found out that it is a reinstated cadre, and now his official career is flourishing.Now, I'm quite worried.It seems that it is advisable for the mainland not to visit for the time being.

During a recent lecture at the University of Houston, someone in the audience asked me how I create and portray fictional characters.I felt ashamed at the time.I have yet to come across a character failure more than I did in "Inside and Out".Not only Zhang Guan Li Dai, the same role has people with very different sexual interests rushing to agree. A character married an American wife, and a certain person also married an American wife. I asked my friends to tell them about it. I was very dissatisfied that I exaggerated and vilified his wife.There is a character who writes poetry, and unfortunately a friend who writes poetry mistakenly thought I was alluding to him, thinking that I was not enough friends.

As a writer, my trepidation is self-evident. Other characters are more involved, so I have to omit it here, otherwise it can be written as a fully documented sequel. The turbulent seventies were over, and my days of writing novels for political impulses were over.I put this troublesome novel as the title of the book, in order to remind myself that I can no longer improvise in the future. Written at the University of Berkeley in early April 1981