His prose has distinctive features: smooth and natural, clear and refined and good at recording stories and people.

Zhang's passing is undoubtedly a great loss for China's literary circles.

Our goal is to manage these precious lands to protect their distinctive natural features and to increase the enjoyment and understanding of visitors. The Lakeshore Nature Preserve can serve as a national model for how cities and universities can protect and sustain the natural areas within their boundaries.

Our cooperation has been smooth.

You should be glad you're doing features; (they're) happy, glad (stories).

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.