《上海50年文学精品丛书》编委会经过讨论,最后确定:散文、报告文学合为一卷两册,给散文(包括杂文、散文诗)大部分篇幅。这一方案的好处是,避免了“一刀切”所带来的种种局限。为较为真实、充分地展示散文和报告文学实绩提供了可能。然而,这种可能又是一把两刃剑,给编选带来许多疑难和麻烦。20世纪下半,上海的文学与这个城市在中国的地位,基本上是相称的。上海的文学创作诸品种中,散文则相当突出。近二十年来,由于环境和作者的种种变化,不少上海散文,不但在中国大陆,有些作品 After the discussion of “Shanghai 50-year Literary Criticism Series”, the final conclusion is that: the essay and the reportage are combined into two volumes in one volume, which will cover most of the prose (including essay and prose poem). The benefit of this solution is that it avoids all the limitations of “one size fits all ”. It has made it possible for us to be more realistic and fully demonstrate the performance of prose and reportage. However, this possibility is again a double-edged sword, which brings many troubles and troubles to the compilation. In the second half of the 20th century, Shanghai’s literature was basically commensurate with the city’s status in China. Among the varieties of literary creation in Shanghai, prose is quite prominent. In the recent two decades, due to various changes in the environment and authors, many Shanghai prose have been published not only in mainland China but also in some works