《中国儿童名著精选译丛》旨在向国外读者介绍现现当代著名儿童文学作品，推广中国的安徒生童话、格林童话品牌。展现中国文化精华。译丛将按作者选取作品，采取专集方式，每册三四万字。其中《中国儿童名著精选译丛冰心》一书收集了中国现代著名儿童文学作家、翻译家冰心的代表作《寄小读者》、《繁星》和《春水》等作品。其写作风格极具特点，婉约典雅、凝炼流畅，具有高度的艺术表现力。这种独特的风格被时人称为冰心体，产生了广泛的影响。 Bing Xin (1900-1999), born in Fuzhou, was a well-known Chinese writer of childrens literature and translator in the 20th century. Her representative works include Letters to Young Readers, A Myriad of Stars, and Spring Waters. As a productive translator, Bing Xin translated quite a few works into Chinese. She had a very distinctive writing style: graceful, restrained, concise, smooth, and highly expressive. Dubbed Bing Xin style by her contemporaries, it has had considerable influences on other writers.

IntroductionFu Lei, a great translator, wrote in one of his family letters to his son Fou Tsong:I have always borne in mind the heart of a newborn babe. A newborn babe doesnt know what loneliness is. If it is lonely, it will create a world and many friends of the soul. Keep the heart of a newborn babe forever, and you will never fall behind the ranks, even when you are old, and you will be able to empathize and connect with the innocent hearts throughout the world at any time. That friend of yours is right in saying that the efficacy of artistic expression must stem from the purity of ones heart. How can you have a true understanding of the souls of your predecessors, and how can you touch the souls of your audience, if your heart is not as pure as a bright mirror?Although not indispensable for every one of us in our lives, childlike innocence is certainly necessary for a person engaged in artistic creation.Bing Xin, the author of this collection, enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a prolific writer and one of the pioneers of childrens literature in modern China. Her works fully embody her philosophy of love maternal love, love of children, and love of nature.Born Xie Wanying on Oct. 5, 1900 into a patriotic family in Fujian Province, Bing Xin had a really happy childhood. It was during the May Fourth Movement that she began writing. After graduating from Yenching University in 1923 with a bachelors degree, Bing Xin went to the United States for further study in literature at Wellesley College. After she returned to China in 1926, she began teaching at Yenching University until 1936. Bing Xins literary career spanned over seventy years, and her most well-known works include A Myriad of Stars, Spring Waters, and Letters to Young Readers.This selection of Bing Xins writings for children is comprised of a selection (about a half) of Letters to Young Readers, the first four letters in More Letters to Young Readers, and six short pieces which include Bing Xins best-known short story The Little Orange Lamp.During her stay in the United States, Bing Xin wrote a lot about what she experienced and thought there, and then contributed what she wrote to newspapers. These prose pieces were later published under the title of Letters to Young Readers in 1926. Perhaps no one has described the beautiful things in a war-torn world better than Bing Xin. More Letters to Young Readers, written during the Anti-Japanese war, is filled with bright sunshine, precious friendship, gratitude towards mothers, and the awe of life, which brought love and hope to the Chinese young readers at that time.

Letters to Young Readers（A Selection）
More Letters to Young Readers
Beijing Opera and Children Who Perform Beijing Opera
The Spring Festivals in My Childhood
Separation
Good Mother
The Little Orange Lamp
A Performance of Dances