巴金在文化生活出版社(简称“文生社”)担任总编辑之职时,对于新起的作家的扶植,例如主动替素不相识的作者收集在报刊上发表的作品,编印成书,常为人称道;对同辈朋友的主动关心,无论叫做锦上添花或雪中送炭都好,例如1940年代为曹禺编辑戏剧集,也传为美谈。这类编辑工作是非常琐 When Ba Jin took over the position of chief editor at the Cultural Life Press (referred to as “Wen Sheng She”) for a long time, he started to collect letters from new writers, for example those who did not know each other, Commendation; the active concern of peer friends, whether it is called icing on the cake or timely help, such as the 1940s for the Cao Yu editing drama series, also referred to as the United States talk. Such editorial work is very trivial