《包身工》是现代著名作家夏衍同志于一九三六年春写的一篇优秀报告文学。选作中学语文教材后,课本编者对它大加删削。原文九千六百字,删削后为五千六百字.删去一百字以上的有九处,共三千四百多字.小的删改就更多了,全文被删改的竟达三百六十处,把原作改得体无完肤.编者花费心血删削,原想使作品更简洁些,文字更规范 Baoshengong is an excellent reportage written by Comrade Xia Yan, a famous contemporary writer, in the spring of 1936. After being selected as a middle school language textbook, textbook editors have made a great deal of deletion. The original text was 9600 words, after deletion it was 5,600 words. There were nine words with more than 100 words removed, and a total of 3,400 words. The deletion of the small words was even more, and the entire text was deleted by three times. In the hundred and sixty-sixth place, the original work was changed to have no perfection. The editors spent time and painstakingly, but originally wanted to make the work more concise and the text more standardized.