Böcker av Kebin Wang

After finishing my book "A Common Citizen's Comments on Dr. Xi", I decided to put down my pen and begin my journey into a quiet senior's life. However, the disruption caused by COVID-19 and the abnormal phenomena in the 2020 general election caused a great shock in me. I felt so indignant that I could no longer stay quiet, which thus pushed me to start writing again.The following essays were written in Chinese as I was turning 75 years old, and which also included my recollections and emotional sentiments during my youth. They will be combined into a new collections of works, my 11th book, titled "The Colorful Leaves in Late Fall".There are also a few emotional recall essays on my child hood, my parents, my teacher as well as the hard time under the leadership of the Communist party.At my age now, some of my friends have started to be passing away, which cause me very sorrow, as well as deep desolate. Hence there are also mourning article and poet in memory of my old friend. Most of my articles were firstly contributed to a few websites, in order to discuss with all kinds of people, whom I even did not know, their feedback and criticism turned out to be an encourage and impellent to me . Hence, I also make a collection of their reflection to my writing. I certainly wish the new readers of my books will like to read and speak out their opinion.

"Hou Long Xu Yi Shi " is a collection of stories about the people and ambience at a poor corner in the south part of Beijing around and after 1950s. The book reproduced the common life of the impecunious people who crowded in the narrow alleys（hutong）and multi-family courtyards（dazayuan), as well as their misfortune in the political movements. These stories reflect my hard feeling, sympathy, and strong nostalgia. The stories in the book are a true illustration of history. The readers will find themselves crossing space-time and landing in a special coordinate system. Among these laborers, each of them was just like a small boat floating on the sea wobbly, some even struggled under the water.

As one of the intellectuals educated in communist China, the author was lucky to be able to study in the United States. And thus he had an opportunity to compare the difference between the two systems. Gradually he revised his views on dictatorship from direct feeling. After retirement, he spent plenty time in writing political essays and comments on current affairs of China. In this book, he collected 30 plus papers which were written from 2012 to 2022, the main purpose is to criticize the ideology and policy of the supreme YI ZUN of China, Xi Jinping。 The book would also raise some open questions about the present status and future of China. However, no matter how hard and tortuous it is, democracy and freedom will eventually come true in China.

"Cheng Nan Jiu Shi" is a collection of stories and memory about the people and ambience at a poor corner in the south part of Beijing around 1950s. The book reproduced the common life of the poor and small people who struggled in the alleys¿hutong¿and multi-family courtyards¿dazayuan). These stories reflect my hard feelings, sympathy, as well as nostalgia. The stories in the book are a true illustration of the history. The readers will find themselves crossing both space and time and landing in a special coordinate system. As for these poor and lower class people, each of them was just like a small boat floating on the sea, and could be buried at any time by the huge wave.

As one of the intellectuals educated in communist China, the author was lucky to be able to study in the United States. And thus he had an opportunity to compare the difference between the two systems. Gradually he revised his views on dictatorship from directly personal feeling. After retirement, he spent plenty time in writing political essays and comments on current affairs of China. In the first article, he discussed the importance of free speech. Following that, he touched upon a series of political issues, such as human rights, showing the sword and self-concealing, the path to democracy, the historical roots of the cultural revolution, as well as the gains and losses of the unity of a large country. These articles are based on independent thought, some of them have been discussed by friends. The book would also raise some open questions about the present status and its future of China. However, no matter how hard it is, democracy and freedom will come true eventually.

As a physicist, the author has particular interests in Chinese literature and history. After retirement, he got enough time to pick up his hobby in liberal arts. Starting from the language culture, then, to history and music. He spent several months on a paper ¿Talking on Chinese Words and Characters¿, in which he emphasized the beauty of the Chinese language, as well as the difficulties encountered in the digital age. Following that, he finished a series of papers discussing Chinese verbs, prepositions, as well as idioms, in comparison with English. In the article on Chinese history, he is trying to generalize from the data in different dynasties in a way similar to statistical analysis, and thus to reach some commonsense conclusions. Two papers about the popular songs in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a discussion about Beijing Opera are also collected in the book.

The book is a collection of short stories and proses, which reproduce the common life of the poor and small people who struggled in hutong and multi-family courtyards in Beijing during the 1950's. It provides vivid descriptions about the violence and torture in the cultural revolution. These stories reflect the hard feelings, sympathy, as well as nostalgia of the author. The readers will find themselves crossing both space and time and landed at a strange coordinate system. For the generation born after 1940 in China, all of them had ever fallen into a big turmoil and a series of political movements. Therefore, they do have plenty impressive stories. However due to the mass surveillance, most of their stories are difficult to be published in China. Hence the book is named The Untold Stories.