达紫香悄悄地开了：英文版

　　In this anthology are four pieces by the well-known Shanghai woman writer Lu Xing'er， one of many talented authors who have appeared on the Chinese literary scene since the 1970s. With an observably feminine sensitivity， she has tasted to the full the excitement， confusion， pain and joy of a generation， and this is vividly reflected in her careful portraits of the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Her protagonists are women from all walks of life and her concern for their fate has made a deep and lasting impression on her readers.

　　Lu Xing'er was born in Shanghai in 1949. In 1968， at the age of nineteen，she was sent to do farm work in the Great Northern Wilderness， and in 1978 entered the Central Drama Insitute. Her first story， "The Ox Horn"， appeared in Heilongjiang Literature in 1974. Since then she has published a dozen short stories， and among them are "Oh！ Blue Bird"， "The Mountain Flowers Have Bloomed Quietly"， and "Born a Woman". She has also produced two novels， A Kiss to the Century and Fairytales in the Grey Building. Her publications also include two collections of short stories， The Structure of the Beauty and The Unremembered Tablet in the Winldness.