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Reverie: A Collection of Poems幻 想 詩 集 Reverie: A Collection of Poems

"Reverie: A Collection of Poems" is a profound journey of the soul, offering a unique perspective and keen perceptiveness that explores everything from the vast expanses of the universe to the subtle shifts within the human heart. Each poem is like a meticulously crafted painting, displaying rich layers of emotion and deep philosophical thought. Whether it's an exploration of the meaning of life or an ode to the beauty of nature, the poet skillfully uses their craft and emotive language to transport readers into a world that is both realistic and surreal. This collection is a literary delight and an enlightenment for the soul.

The collection is aptly named "Reverie." A "reverie" is not just a dreamlike escape from reality but also a deep reflection on and exploration of life, as well as an immersive experience in contemplation and introspection. Poetry arises from life and transcends it; thus, these poems delve deeply from the heights of faith and spirit into the worldly sufferings and boundless possibilities of the future, provoking profound reflection with each piece.

The Last Marilyn Monroe A Tale of Art, Love and Destiny

The Last Marilyn Monroe is a fictional novella inspired by factual artwork. Centered around a unique oil painting, it tells a heartfelt story of finding love and meaning in life.

Lisha, a Chinese investment adviser living in New York, is a devoted art enthusiast. Struck by the beauty and uniqueness of a larger-than-life oil painting, she devises a bold plan with the help of her family and friends to "sneak" the painting into a museum for the public to appreciate. Unexpectedly, the painting gains widespread acclaim, putting their reputations and careers at risk. The group had to undertake another daring mission—to “sneak” the painting from the museum.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of New York City, The Last Marilyn Monroe explores the intricate emotional entanglements and aspirations of its characters. As the story unfolds, the secrets behind the painting come to light: Why did a master artist choose resolution after finding his own visual language? How did a group of friends with cultural race and ethnicity diversity rediscover the meaning of love and life through a "mission impossible"?

Encounter is fate, but love is a choice. Life is filled with challenges and uncertainty, but by choosing love, we find the courage to walk through the darkest valley to embrace the light of our souls.

The Last Marilyn Monroe最後的夢露

The Last Marilyn Monroe is a fictional novella inspired by a real artwork. Centered on an oil painting of the same name and its distinctive visual language, it tells a story of finding love and meaning in life.《最後的夢露》是一篇根據真實的藝術作品虛構的中篇小說，圍繞着一幅具有獨特視覺語言的油畫《最後的夢露》展開，講述了一個找到愛和生命意義的故事。

Lisha, an investor from mainland China working in New York, loves art. Determined to bring her favorite painting, The Last Marilyn Monroe, into a museum for the public to enjoy, she and her friends and family devise a daring plan to sneak it inside. When the painting unexpectedly becomes a sensation, fears for their jobs and reputations lead them to decide to steal it back out.來自中國大陸，在紐約從事投資工作的李莎熱愛藝術。爲了把她喜愛《最後的夢露》這幅作品放進博物館讓公衆欣賞，李莎與親朋好友們策劃了一個將畫偷放進博物館的冒險行爲。沒想到，這幅作品意外爆紅，讓大家怕失去自己的工作和名譽，於是決定把畫再偷出博物館。

Against the vast backdrop of New York City, The Last Marilyn Monroe explores its characters’ emotional entanglements and dreams. As the story unfolds, the painting’s secrets emerge: why an older artist who invented a new artistic language chose seclusion, and how friends of different racial and cultural backgrounds rediscover love and life’s meaning through a seemingly impossible mission.在紐約大都市這個宏大背景下，《最後的夢露》展示了每個角色之間的情感糾葛與人生夢想。隨着故事的發展，隱藏在《最後的夢露》背後的各種祕密逐漸明朗：一位創造出全新藝術語言的老藝術家爲何選擇隱居，一羣跨種族和文化的朋友如何通過一件不可能完成的任務，重新發現愛和生命的意義。

Meeting may be a matter of fate, but love is a choice. Life is inevitably filled with difficulties and challenges. Only by choosing love can we find the courage to cross its dark valleys and feel the warmth of the soul’s light.遇見是緣分，愛卻是選擇。人生註定充滿困難與挑戰，只有選擇愛，我們纔有勇氣走過生命的幽谷，看見靈魂之光帶來的溫暖。

Dr. Shi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Essays)時博士講大都會博物館（隨筆）

This thoroughly researched Chinese-language book guides readers through New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its author, Shi Xiangdong, holds a doctorate in fine arts and lives in New York. As he explains, the museum’s collections place human civilizations side by side. This juxtaposition of civilizations and knowledge resembles an encyclopedia, vividly explaining changes from making objects to making gods, from painting and sculpture to materials, craftsmanship, technology, and aesthetic taste. It becomes a multidimensional comparative history of art across time and geography, revealing how civilizations have influenced one another across different peoples.這是一本史料詳實的帶你參觀紐約大都會博物館的中文書籍，作者是在紐約居住的美術學博士時向東。正如他所言：大都會博物館的收藏像是一部人類文明的"並置"，這些"文明"和"智慧"的並置恰似一部百 科全書，生動的解釋了從造物到造神，從繪畫、雕塑到材料、工藝、技術和審美時尚的變化。這種"並 置"就是一部體現時間、地域縱橫交流的立體的藝術對比史，讓人從中感受到文明在不同民族間 相互流動和影響的腳印。

Through close observation of objects and research into their backgrounds, Dr. Shi records his discoveries and impressions in accessible Chinese, combining clear explanations with illustrations.時博士透過對實物的觀察以及對背景資料的研究，以聽得懂、看得明白、圖文相濟的方式， 以中文來記錄出他對大都會博物館發現和感受。

The book presents only a small selection of his reflections on museum visits. Alongside personal questions, discoveries, and thoughts, it offers researchers and interested visitors fresh perspectives and points of entry. Reading it before a visit can be especially useful: at a minimum, it helps readers avoid missing exceptional works, and attentive reading may reveal deeper spiritual and cultural connections with the author.這本書裏的內容只是時博士所寫參觀"心得"的一小部分，不僅記錄了個人的困惑、發現和思考，也可以為研究者、感興趣的 遊客提供新鮮的角度和觀賞的臺階。如果讀者在參觀大都會博物館以前先看看這本書，相信是非常有幫 助的，最起碼你不會錯過精品，如果你讀得細緻，也許可以和作者產生許多精神和文化上的共鳴。

Predestination (Poetry)宿命（詩集）

Gu Yuehua’s poetry possesses a natural unity of poetic feeling and visual beauty, perhaps shaped by her background in fine art and oil painting. In Confusion, a shadow never leaves one’s side, appearing and disappearing yet always returning. Poetry contains painting and painting contains poetry: person and shadow remain inseparable, accompanying each other through life. In Sunset, brilliant evening light draws back a magnificent curtain, while silence and darkness become the true ending after it closes. The glorious colors of dusk give way to broad darkness, turning the end of daylight—and perhaps of life—into an image we can feel and see.顧月華的詩，又有一種渾然天成的詩情畫意，這一點恐怕與她曾經專攻美術與油畫的人生閱歷有 關。請看《迷思》 "總有一個影子/左右不離/且生且滅，且滅且相隨"，詩中嵌畫，畫中蘊詩，人與影不離 不棄，相伴相生，始終相隨。《日落》 "輝煌霞光拉開華麗帷幕/寂靜和黑暗是閉幕後/真正的結局"，更是黃昏的晚霞斑斕輝煌之後化為大塊黑暗的底色，將天光的結局(這何嘗不也是人生的結局)演繹成了可感可觀的圖像。

The title Predestination suggests a backward glance at life. Every scene and moment seems to fulfill a promise from an earlier existence. Her brief three-line poems resemble sudden flashes of insight, illuminating the paths of life and her own reflections. The author says that love makes poetry possible: an expansive love embracing all things. A poet’s heart holds both blazing passion and entwined tenderness, the emotions of life and the insights of human experience. Whether release or challenge, these feelings inhabit her colorful poems and leave a lasting resonance.詩集的名字叫《宿命》，充滿了生命回首的味道。每一個場景，每一個瞬間，都如同是前世的約定。她的三言詩雖短，卻如同瞬間的靈光，照亮了一縷縷生命的軌道，也照亮了她自己的所思所想。作者說有愛 才能寫詩，這種愛是博大的，是包括萬物的。寫詩的人心裡，既有烈焰的噴薄，也有柔情的纏繞，它是生命 的情緒，也是人間的感悟，無論是宣洩，抑或是挑戰，都包裹在她彩色的詩裡，讓人回味無窮。

Time of Utopia (Poetry)時光的烏託邦（詩集）

Hong Junzhi: Subjective imagery gives Sonia Hu’s poetry depth, while reflections of the objective world bring life’s fragrance into that otherwise hazy inner landscape. Evening Light is one example: clouds dance into time’s long sleeves, pink persistence blossoms into memory. Such language has the flavor of a forceful combination—poetic defamiliarization. Unusual combinations make an image seem both recognizable and strange, creating a gap between familiar understanding and newly formed imagery that produces a fresh aesthetic experience. Hu uses this technique skillfully throughout Time of Utopia, without awkwardness. Her poetry was already mature in the 1980s, when most poems in this collection were written. This is especially remarkable in an era when Misty Poetry was still emerging, new free verse was finding its place, and colloquial poetry had yet to appear. Looking back, one could reasonably place her work at the forefront of Chinese poetry at the time.洪君植： 主觀意象的投射讓胡桃的詩更有內涵，而客觀鏡像的映射卻給灰濛濛的內涵帶入了生命的芬芳。比如“夕光”就如此。“雲飄舞成時光長袖”，“粉色的執着”，綻放着“記憶”等這種詩語頗有“暴力組合的味道”。所謂“暴力組合”也就是詩語的“陌生化”，它以非正常組合詩語讓詩象看起來似是而非的以求原有的認知與新造的詩象之間產生落差以達到審美新體驗的方式。胡桃非常嫺熟地使用這種詩象的營造方式，在整個《時光的烏托邦》這本詩集裏到處可見，而毫無違和感。說明胡桃早在1980年代在詩創作上已經非常成熟。特別是《時光的烏托邦》這本詩集裏收集的詩大部分都是1980年代創作這一點上，這是非常難能可貴的。遙想當年，朦朧詩還沒起步，新自由詩還沒找到自己位置，口語詩更是還見不到蹤影的時候，這是一個非常了不起的作業。可以說，從現在往回看，就當時而言胡桃的詩站在當時中國詩壇最前沿也不爲過。

With understanding, a smile, and tolerance, Sonia Hu can stand outside her poems and observe them as an object. This allows her to look calmly upon a noisy era and quietly describe the restless hearts of those restless times.有了理解，微笑與包容，胡桃可以在詩以外作爲一個客體內視自己的詩，纔可以那麼淡然的眼神環顧噪音充斥的年代，那麼喃喃地敘述着那個躁動年代躁動的心。

The poems from the 1980s and 1990s in Time of Utopia reveal the passions and collapses of youth in that era: a miniature portrait of its times and the emotional journeys of its young women and men.縱觀胡桃詩集《時光的烏托邦》裏收錄的80，90年代的詩，我們從從中看到那個時代青春的激情與坍縮，可以讀到縮小版的時代映象與時代青春男女的心路歷程。

In life’s fleeting century, only the human spirit can defy time. Time of Utopia traces an era’s inner journey, a condensed map of society’s emotional landscape. Hu’s most distinctive quality is her fresh combination of poetic language, which gives readers an unfamiliar experience of poetry. She handles weighty material with apparent ease, wrapping serious historical and social reflection in graceful language. Stepping beyond a subjective self, she describes poetic worlds from an outside perspective; many poems therefore speak from a third-person viewpoint.在人生匆匆百年中，無視歲月的只有人類的心靈。胡桃詩集《時光的烏托邦》是一部一個時代的心路歷程，簡化版的社會心靈地圖。胡桃的詩最大的特點就是新穎的詩語組合，從而給人帶來的前所未有的詩欣賞體驗。而作詩方式上胡桃舉重若輕，以及其清雅的詩語包裹沉重的時代思考和社會反思。在視角上跳出自我的主觀，從客體的角度去表述詩境，所以胡桃的詩大部分都是從第三者的角度敘述。

What makes life pleasant? Refusing to cling to external things, seeing clearly without exaggeration, and having crossed the ocean without being captive to its waters.人生何以愜意？不住於外物，看透而不渲染，曾經滄海過卻不爲“水”。

Sonia Hu has achieved this.胡桃做到了。

Reminiscence of Fleeting Time (Nonfiction)往事經年流水夢（非虛構）

Long Publishers in the United States recently published Sonia Hu’s nonfiction collection Reminiscence of Fleeting Time. Her first dedicated volume of biographical nonfiction contains nineteen documentary essays written in recent years, fourteen of which appeared in Taiwan’s Biographical Literature journal.華文作家紐約桃花非虛構文集《往事經年流水夢》於近日由美國龍出版社出版。這本文集是她的第一本非虛構傳記文學專集，收錄了紐約桃花近幾年撰寫的19篇非虛構紀實文章，其中14篇刊登在臺灣《傳記文學》期刊上。

Before this collection, Sonia Hu published the nonfiction biography Shanghai Forever Lost, the film essays Mirror Flower, Water Moon, the fiction collection North of Shanghai, South of Beijing, and the poetry collection Autumn Breeze and Orange Moon. She edited the poetry anthology A Reflection on Passing Time and the art collection Stone’s Mona Lisa. She received first prize for news commentary in the 2020 Overseas Chinese Writing Awards.在出版這本文集之前，紐約桃花已出版個人著作有非虛構傳記《上海浮生若夢》(再版爲《浮生上海》)、電影筆記《鏡花水月懷舊事》、小說集《上海以北，北京以南》、詩集《紐約秋風與明月》，主編過詩集《紐約流光詩影》及藝術文集《石村的蒙娜莉薩》。她曾獲得過2020年“海外著述獎”新聞寫作評論首獎。

Sonia Hu began writing nonfiction in 2011, serializing accounts of her mother and grandmother on two Chinese-language blogging websites in the United States. The pieces were warmly received, each attracting more than ten thousand combined views. She collected them as Shanghai Forever Lost, first published in the United States in 2017. Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House had planned a mainland edition under a revised Chinese title, but canceled the contract because of force majeure. The revised edition was ultimately published in the United States and distributed through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Shanghai Forever Lost received a merit award in the 2018 Overseas Chinese Writing Awards and the inaugural Chinese Film and Television Literature Outstanding Creativity Award.紐約桃花的非虛構寫作始於2011年。 當時，她開始在美國的兩家中文博客網站上連載了關於她母親以及外婆的身世，受到了極大的歡迎，每篇在兩個網站加起來都有上萬的閱讀量。 因此，她便將這些文章整理成書，取名《上海浮生若夢》，2017年在美國首版發行。《上海浮生若夢》原計劃在國內由江蘇鳳凰文藝出版社改名爲《浮生上海》出版，但因“不可抗力”取消合同，因此，《浮生上海》最後在美國出版並在亞馬遜和巴諾書店上發行。目前，《上海浮生若夢》獲得過2018年“海外著述獎”佳作獎及“首屆華人影視文學優秀創意獎”。

Sonia Hu recalls: Before 2011, I knew little about my father’s family history. After I began blogging on SinoVision’s website that year, SinoVision produced a program about my great-grandfather Hu Shiyu, a renowned Jiangnan scholar. They interviewed me, my uncle Hu Sisheng—a former People’s Daily reporter who also blogged on the site—and my sister Hu Rong. During the interview at my uncle’s apartment, I saw my great-grandfather’s photograph and one of his celebrated handwritten poetry collections, Autumn Wind Scroll, for the first time. Deeply moved, I wrote my first commemorative article about him and began a journey to discover my roots. From 2018 onward, I wrote and published a series about remarkable figures in my family.紐約桃花說：在2011年前，我並不瞭解我父親的家族往事。 2011年開始在美國中文網上寫博客後，美國中文電視臺做了一文件關於我曾祖父，“江南大儒”胡石予的節目，採訪了我以及同在一箇中文網上寫博客的我叔叔，曾擔任《人民日報》記者的胡思升、我的姐姐胡榕。 採訪在胡思升的公寓進行時，我第一次看到了我曾祖父的照片和他著名的手抄詩集之一《秋風詩卷》，深受觸動。 爲此，我寫了第一篇紀念胡石予的文章，開始了我的尋根之旅，從2018年開始，陸續撰寫刊發了一系列的關於我家族中的傳奇人物。

Her first submission to Taiwan’s celebrated nonfiction journal Biographical Literature was an article remembering her grandfather Hu Shuyi, an educator specializing in children’s education during the Republican era. It appeared in the December 2017 issue. This marked the beginning of her family nonfiction writing and regular contributions to the journal.紐約桃花最初向臺灣的著名非虛構期刊“傳記文學”投稿了一篇紀念她的祖父，民國兒童教育家胡叔異的文章被收錄在2017年12月期刊中。 從此，她便踏上了撰寫家族非虛構文章的旅途，定期向“傳記文學”投稿。

In the preface, Sonia Hu writes: I have always thought of myself as an old soul, drawn to the people and events of history and to fragments of stories that move me amid its dust. Born and raised in Beijing, I loved lingering in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, imagining the lives and anecdotes of people who inhabited them centuries ago. I knew nothing of my own family’s history then and never imagined I would write their stories. Many years after moving to America, a chance encounter revealed my family’s past and inspired me to record what I learned. It feels like an unseen destiny. We never know who holds the course of our lives, or how its hidden workings guide us toward an unpredictable future.紐約桃花在這本書的序中說：我一直認爲自己是一個老靈魂，喜歡探索歷史往事中的人和事，在歷史的灰塵中打撈吸引我、感動我的故事碎片。 我從小出生長大在北京，常常喜歡在故宮與頤和園中流連忘返，讓思緒飄向百年千年之前的朝代，想象着曾經生活在這裏的古人們的前情軼事。 那時，我並不瞭解自己家族的歷史，也從未想過有一天我會撰寫他們的故事。 沒想到，到了美國許多年之後，在一個偶然的機會中，我才解了我家族的過往，開始熱衷於把知道的故事寫出來。 我感覺這就是冥冥之中的命運，你永遠不知道是誰掌握你的人生，更不知道人生的使然往往是暗藏的玄機，引領着你走向一個無法預測的未來。

New York Stories (Fiction)穿過紐約縫隙（小說）

Wang Yu: Sonia Hu is known for biographical writing, but her talent extends far beyond it. Her fiction is equally moving. Beijing Memories, Like Dust opens with a dusty window in Beijing and particles clearly floating in a beam of sunlight. Repeating the word dust is more than a description of scenery: it deliberately anchors the theme. In The Artist’s Lover and Wife, the triangle between artist, wife, and lover is tangled beyond easy resolution. The author thoughtfully introduces an observer, a Korean shopkeeper named Jin, whose store faces the artist’s studio. The visiting lover reminds Jin of his own first love. The touch is light, but its resonance is lasting; the character’s appearance is inspired.王渝： 紐約桃花以寫傳記著稱，她的寫作才華卻不僅限於此。她的小說也叫人讀的蕩氣回腸。《北京往事如塵》一開篇描寫北京落滿灰塵的玻璃窗，投進來一束陽光中一粒粒灰塵清晰可見地漂浮着。連續兩次“灰塵”一詞的出現，可不只是客觀描繪景色，而是着意緊扣主題的表述。《藝術家的情人和老婆》這個故事中，藝術家和妻子和情人的三角關係，真是夠糾纏，實在是理還亂。作者竟然有心地安排了一個旁觀者韓裔金老闆。金老闆的店開在藝術家工作室的對街。藝術家來訪的情人，讓金老闆回憶起自己的初戀。著筆很淡，餘味悠遠。這個人物的出現是神來之筆。

Ling Lan: Bei Dao said that Chinese is the best luggage—the one possession we wanderers cannot lose on life’s journey. A friend devoted to photography once told me that even the most beautiful scenery or exciting event is as though it never happened unless captured in an image. Likewise, for a writer, a life unrecorded and feelings unexpressed in words would be a life unlived. This is especially true for someone as gifted as Sonia, who began recording life with a pen in childhood. She recalls that writing let her escape reality: she daydreamed in class and missed her bus stop, but writing gave her courage and confidence. In class and outside it, she excitedly filled scraps of paper. The innate desire to record and express is where a writer begins.凌嵐： 北島說中文是最好的行李，中文是我們這些漂泊的人在一生的旅行中唯一丟不掉的行李。一個沉迷於攝影的朋友曾經跟我說，再好的風景，再激動人心的事， 如果不被記錄在影像中就等於沒有發生過。同理， 對生活的記錄，情感表達的渴望，如果不形諸於文字，對於寫作者來說就等於白活了。像桃花這樣一個有寫作天分，從小就用筆開始記錄人生的才女，更是這樣：“小時候，寫作是一個讓我逃離現實世界的方式......上課走神，坐車坐過站， 寫作給我唯一的勇氣和信心。……課上課下，我都拿着一堆紙片興奮地寫着......”記錄和表達是天生的慾望，這就是作家的開始。

Hong Junzhi: Through the emotional lives and entanglements of men and women, Sonia Hu’s fiction explores humanity’s inborn unease and anxiety. These feelings cling to people throughout life and project themselves into the situations they encounter in society.洪君植： 紐約桃花的小說通過男男女女的情感生活和感情糾葛，深入的探討了人與生俱來的不安與焦慮，而這些不安與焦慮就像如蛆附骨般的跟着人的一生並投射到社會以後的情境。

Rock and Palm Tree (Photography)岩石與棕櫚樹 （攝影）

War zones, photography and reporting draw many journalists. To those living in peace, war may seem distant. We glimpse gunfire, life and death, and reporters crawling through smoke in scattered images on screens and in newspapers. When a photographer beside us tells us about life on the front lines as a friend would, we can discover stories hidden behind the news.戰地，攝影，記者，這是多少新聞人的嚮往! 當戰爭來臨，身處和平的我們會覺得離我們很遙遠。舉目望去，紛飛的戰火、慘烈的生死和 硝煙中匍匐採訪的新聞記者，一幀幀一幕幕，我們只能透過屏幕和報刊的新聞報導獲得零碎 信息。 當一位身邊人像朋友一樣跟你講述自己的戰地親歷，相信你一定會從中看到新聞背後那些隱 祕的故事。

This book records the wartime experiences of Liu Jin, a Chinese photographer for Agence France-Presse. He accompanied troops to Afghanistan and Iraq three times, faced an AK-47 aimed and fired at his head, encountered a car bomb while patrolling with American forces, and went to great lengths even for a bowl of Sichuan boiled beef. Striking war photographs and extensive reporting show combat and everyday life on the front lines of the American war on terror, while deepening readers’ understanding of people caught in war’s suffering. The book also offers a vivid practical guide to war photography: equipment, exposure, and shooting positions, with valuable lessons for news photographers and photography enthusiasts alike.本書記載的就是一位中國籍法新社攝影記者劉瑾的戰地經歷。 他三次赴阿富汗、伊拉克隨軍採訪，曾被AK-47步槍瞄準腦袋開槍，曾隨美軍巡邏遭遇汽車 炸彈，曾為了喫一碗水煮牛肉費盡周折...... 本書通過精彩的戰地攝影作品和豐富的採訪經歷，向讀者展示了美軍在反恐戰爭前線最真實 的戰鬥場面和生活場景，也讓讀者對曾經身處戰爭苦難人們有了更多的瞭解。 本書也是一部生動的戰地攝影祕笈。什麼樣的器材纔是最好用的，什麼樣的曝光纔是最佳 的，什麼樣的拍攝姿勢纔是最成功的......各位新聞攝影同行和攝影愛好者也能從中獲益多多。

Stone’s Mona Lisa (Nonfiction)石村的蒙娜麗莎（記實）

Stone’s Mona Lisa collects interviews, reports, and profiles about the artist Stone and his artistic journey. Spanning twenty-six years, it brings together much of the media coverage from 1993 to 2019, along with articles written by people around him.《石村的蒙娜麗莎》是一本關於藝術家石村其人和藝術歷程的採訪、報道與專訪的的合集。 這本書跨度26年，收集了從1993年到2019年關於藝術家石村的大部分媒體採訪和專訪，以及他周邊的人撰寫的一些文章。

Stone’s artistic journey and work are unusually controversial, revealing two very different phases that might be described as an earlier and a present life. The book is organized into three sections. Earlier Life: Taiwan and Earlier Life: New York use journalists’ interviews and reports to recount the sensation he created in Taiwan between 1993 and 1995, his path to becoming an MTV host, and his life and artistic ideas in the early 1990s. Present Life: Beijing and Present Life: New York draw on writers from the media and other professions to document the development and rise of his new artistic language, Stonecube. In Stone Speaks, the artist describes his own growth and the influence of art and music on his life.與一般的藝術家不同，石村的藝術歷程和藝術作品都充滿了爭議性，可以劃分爲藝術的前世和今生兩個完全不同版本的寫意。 因此，這本書由三個部分組成。「前世臺灣篇」和「前世紐約篇」通過不同專業媒體記者的採訪和報道，展示了從1993年到1995年期間，石村在臺灣引起的轟動x效應，以及成爲美國音樂電視臺MTV主持人的過程，展示了石村在上世紀九十年代初期的人生軌跡和藝術想法。 「今生北京篇」和「今生紐約篇|則通過不同媒體人，以及各行各業的人士撰寫的文章描述了石村最新藝術語言「石村塊」的發展和崛起過程，以及相關的媒體報道。「石村談」這個部分則充分展現了石村自己對人生成長過程的描述，以及藝術與音樂對他的影響。

In May 2019, five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci, Stone drew on his return to faith in God to reinterpret the classic Mona Lisa using the artistic language of Stonecube. Reimagining the portrait five hundred years later, he created a pinnacle of Stonecube and transformed Leonardo’s Mona Lisa into Stone’s Mona Lisa.2019年5月，正好是達芬奇誕辰500週年，石村憑藉他對上帝的迴歸，用「石村塊」的藝術語言重新創作了達芬奇的經典油畫作品「蒙娜麗莎」，再現了「蒙娜麗莎」500年後的形象，成爲「石村塊」的巔峯之作，也將達芬奇的蒙娜麗莎徹底轉換成爲了石村的蒙娜麗莎。

The preface was written by Stone’s longtime friend, poet and painter Yan Li. The afterword was written by publisher Sonia Hu, formerly a producer of MTV’s Tian Lai Cun.本書的序言由石村多年的好友、詩人畫家嚴力撰寫， 後記則由前MTV電視臺節目《天籟村》製作人、出版人胡桃撰寫。

To highlight the originality of Stone and his work, the book takes an unusual editorial approach: outsiders’ perspectives appear alongside the artist’s own language and understanding. Together they trace an extraordinary life and reveal different facets of his artistic journey. Filled with unusual experiences and engaging stories, the book also explores life’s ultimate purpose and meaning through art, presenting Stone’s world through both human and spiritual dimensions.爲了突出石村其人和其作品的創意性，《石村的蒙娜麗莎》採用了一個從未有過的編輯、出版方式，即通過外人的理解角度和眼光，以及通過石村自己的眼光和語言描述，勾畫出一個不同尋常的藝術家的人生歷程，展現了他在藝術人生上面的不同側面。這是一本充滿了藝術家奇特經歷和趣味的書籍，也是一本從藝術上探索人生終極目的與意義的作品，從人性和靈性兩個方面展現出了石村的世界。

Stone’s Mona Lisa was edited by Sonia Hu and Hong Junzhi and jointly published by New World Press in the United States and Long Publishers.《石村的蒙娜麗莎》由紐約桃花和洪君植主編，美國新世界出版社和龍出版社聯合出版。…

Shanghai Forever Lost (Biography)浮生上海 （傳記）

Yan Li, poet, writer, and painter: History is a jigsaw puzzle. Different texts and narratives make each period more complete and clear, allowing humanity to learn from human nature and institutions as civilization gradually accumulates. Yet pieces are often missing, or some prove fabricated after the puzzle is assembled. This is tragic, and everyone who lives in society bears responsibility. I therefore welcome rigorous, conscientious accounts of history, especially those that give it the breath of life through ordinary people’s experiences. Sonia Hu’s Shanghai Forever Lost portrays living individuals amid dramatic historical upheaval: a trustworthy piece of the puzzle. If more people record the present promptly and truthfully, later generations can reflect alongside our texts, giving hope for better social institutions.嚴力（詩人、作家與畫家） ：歷史是一張拼圖，各種文本和敘述把每一段歷史變得完整清晰起來，爲的是讓人類能總結人性和制度的經驗，社會文明就此一點點地積累起來。但經常有某些段落的歷史拼圖缺少幾塊或者拼完了發現其中幾塊是編造的，這就很悲哀，而此悲哀的發生，作爲在社會里生存的人都是有責任的。所以凡是看到用嚴謹和認真態度記錄描寫歷史的文本我都很欣喜，尤其是用日常人物來展現的人生遭遇更讓歷史讀起來有了生命的呼吸感。紐約桃花寫的《浮生上海》就是鮮活的日常人物如何在時代劇烈起伏中的經歷，這就是歷史拼圖中可信的一塊。如果更多的當代人能及時記錄與真實地描述，後代人將爲之與我們的文本一起反省，更好的社會制度建設纔會有希望。

Wang Yu, writer and poet: Through one family’s story, the book leads readers into history and into themselves. The author’s vivid prose brings back what has disappeared and allows it to live on.王渝（作家、詩人） ： 以一個家族的故事，帶讀者走進歷史，走進自己。由於作者的生花妙筆，那些消失的都再現，都生存了下來。

Fan Haitao, biographer and founder of Haitao Oral History and Biography Studio: Almost a year ago, my New York friend Sonia Hu gave me her biographical manuscript. Exhausted as a new mother, I had no time to read it. Only when she recently asked me to write a preface did I read it closely. Afterward I called her in excitement. The writing was deeply moving and dreamlike, with echoes of Eileen Chang and Yan Geling. For me, it captured the fraught relationship between mother and daughter: indebted to each other, yet depending on each other throughout life. We are all products of time.範海濤 （傳記作家，海濤口述歷史·人物傳記工作室創始人） ：幾乎是一年前，我的紐約好友胡桃給我一本她寫的傳記文學。當時作爲新手媽媽疲於奔命，沒有時間看。這段時間她讓我寫序，我才盡力細細品讀。讀完我激動地給她打了一個電話，真的是蕩氣迴腸，浮生若夢般的文字，文風頗有幾分張愛玲和嚴歌苓的影子。之於我，她刻畫出了那種母女之間生無可戀的關係。相互拖欠，又終生互爲依靠。我們都是時間的產物。

Shanghai Forever Lost records ordinary lives against the sweeping backdrop of old Shanghai. Through the author’s grandmother and mother—their experiences in Shanghai from the 1920s through the 1940s and in Beiping in the 1950s—it depicts the city’s past and the impact of historical change on individual lives. This biography condenses ordinary people’s experiences amid the histories of Shanghai and Beiping. Opening it is like opening a time capsule: time reappears, history speaks, and the past comes alive.傳記文學《上海浮生若夢》記錄了老上海的大時代背景下小人物的人生經歷，通過作者的姥姥與母親二十年代到四十年代在上海以及五十年代在北平的親身經歷，描繪出上海的過去往事，歷史的演變對人生造成的影響和衝擊。這是一本凝縮了上海及北平歷史大時代輝映下平凡人的傳記，打開它，如同打開一個時間的膠囊，讓時光再現，讓歷史講話，讓往事復活。

My Journey to the West was originally a booklet published by Shanghai educator Hu Shuyi at Zhengzhong Book Company in 1948. It collected his newspaper and magazine accounts of travels in Europe and America, with a preface by his schoolmate and fellow educator Wu Junsheng. This new edition includes rare photographs of Hu and his family from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his granddaughter Sonia Hu’s article My Grandfather Hu Shuyi, a Republican-Era Shanghai Educator, originally published in Taiwan’s Biographical Literature. Sonia also wrote a new preface for the reissue.《戰後西遊記》原是民國上海教育家胡叔異於民國三十七年(1948 年)在上海正中書局出版的一本小冊子,收集了他在上海各報刊雜誌上撰寫的關於他在歐美旅行的見聞。此書由胡叔異的校友,民國教育家吳俊升作序後結集出版。此次再版收集了胡叔異及家人於1930年到1940年間的珍貴照片,以及胡叔異的孫女,北美作家胡桃原在臺灣《傳記文學》雜誌上發表的文章《民國上海教育家,我的祖父胡叔異)。胡桃還爲此書撰寫了再版序。

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