THE GENERAL ALLEY
by Shi Lei
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The author sets the story in Beijing(Beiping) during WWII, telling a story in old Beijing from the perspective of the boy Dabao. The fiction depicts people from all walks of life in old Beijing with a focus on General Tu, an offspring of a royal soldier, a character with impressive bravery and devotion. Poetic language, contents full of childlike fun and rich historical and cultural details are all integrated in this piece of work.
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Author Biography
Shi Lei is a member of Beijing Writers Association. His works have been published in many magazines such as Children’s Literature and Reader Friends. He has won multiple awards including Bing Xin Children’s Literature Award for Notable New Works in 2011 and the golden prize of Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award. His fiction The General Alley gained the top prize at the first Sunflower Fiction Award and was highly appreciated by experts including Xie Mian, Gao Hongbo and WangQuangen.
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Daylight Publishing House is a juvenile and children's books publishing house under China Publishing Group Corporation. To be specific, it is an imprint of People's Literature Publishing House, the largest literature publishing house in Mainland China, which enjoys a history of 65 years.Committed to furnish readers with the most excellent children's books, we attach the first importance to children's literature, while children's cartoon works, children's science works and early childhood works can also find a place for themselves.You can find series of well-known Chinese writers'works in our publication list. Literature masters such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Lao She and Bing Xin, and respectable modern writers like Jin Bo, Zhang Zhilu, Cao Wenxuan, Yang Hongying, Chang Xingang, Tang Sulan are all included.We are working hard in international cooperation and have already built close relationships with Random House, Walker Books, Scholastic and other famous publishing houses around the world. We have published children’s books popular in the world like The Redwall Series, The Alfons Series, Le Petit Nicolas, The Pocket Doodling and Colouring Series and The Essential Science Series, and have collected various wonderful titles in our International Award-Winning Book Series. An international cooperation project—"Chinese Story Seeds & Global Art Blooms"—has been initiated by us. This is a project of Cao Wenxuan's picture books, aimed at facilitating the transnational collaboration between Chinese stories of Cao Wenxuan, the only Chinese author to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2016) and excellent illustrations from other countries.Apart from the various books mentioned before, we have also published a science magazine named Daylight Science for Kids, enabling children interested in science to explore more every month.
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- Publisher DAYLIGHT PUBLISHING HOUSE
- Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
- ISBN/Identifier 9787501615230
- Publication Country or regionChina
- FormatHardback
- Pages248
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions147*210 mm
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