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《I Want My Carving Knife》, in my opinion, is undoubtedly one of Liu Jianping’s masterpieces and his satisfied works. Many of us, like a file, fill our children carefully and affectionately until we make them a ball that can slip into a hole. Will this lead the great nation once admired by the rest world to vanish?

Jianpin attempts to make his children’s works obtained a larger social capacity, and tried to give the children back to the society. He is not proud of that the world of children is a zone of peace anymore. Instead, he desires to expose and present the complication of the world to the innocent children. He intends to make the children grow faster and more mature, like couch grasses on the beach swept by the autumn wind and standing like a copper wire with metal brightness.

Please return the carving knife to the children! Doesn’t it work?

Commented by Cao Wenxuan

Author Biography

Liu Jianping, a member of Chinese Writers Association, was born on November 18, 1953 accoriong to the Chinese lunar calendar, in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. In 1974, he began to publish works, and has published more than ten books by now, including children's literature collection of short stories, and novels. Among his works, the short story 《I Want My Carving Knife》won the First National Excellent Children's Literature Award, and 《You Are Seven Years Old This Year 》won the Second National Excellent Children's Literature Award and Soong Ching-ling Prize for Children's Literature as well. In June 1973, he went to live and work in a production team of a nursery garden in Kunshan, and in April 1976 he was transferred to Kunshan cultural center as a creator. Two years later, in October 1978, he was transferred to the Jiangsu editorial department of Juvenile Literature as a novel editor. From October 1988 he became the director of Literature Department in Phoenix Juvenile and Children's Publishing House, and then in April 1996, he started to serve as the vice president of Phoenix Juvenile and Children's Publishing House. In June 1999, he was transferred to the president and chief editor of Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, and in January 2006, the president and chief editor of Jiangsu People's Publishing House. From 2011 he kept working as Phoenix Publishing & Media Group deputy general manager till his retirement in 2015.