As the sister piece of Red Sorghum,the novel White Cotton was first published in the 5th issue of Huacheng in 1991 as the"first published edition".Almost at the same time,it was included in the White Cotton,a collection of stories of the same name published by Huayi Publishing House in October 1991,as the"original e-dition".These two versions are close in time,but are obvious different in text.So later"two flowers blossom"the later"reprinted version"belongs to the"first published edition"sequence;while the"original edition"was later collected in Happy Times Good Humor published by Jiuzhou Publishing House in 2002 and Mo Yan Collected Works volume 10 published by Contemporary World Publishing House in 2004.In 2004,the White Cotton of the Masterpiece Painting·Mo Yan Fine series of the National Publishing House,is based on the"original edition"but is modified comprehensively,so it can be called"modified version".In May 2020,the White Cotton(Mo Yan no-vel fine series)published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House adopted this version.On the one hand,we advocate the writer's version consciousness,that is,to keep the text of the work as stable as possible;On the other hand,the revision and polishing of the work over and over again is indeed a process of excellence.As a re-sult,the text and version of contemporary literature are often jointly completed by writers and editors,and readers are also an important part of the"optimization"process of the version.
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