{"title":"All books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"贾想ii-9787516812976","title":"Jia Xiang II","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/27600198\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"台海出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":45984453361903,"sku":"9787516812976","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1rq7GO6hSFBoZ6-RINrJ5vM6ctooSlESE_3932fc72-0578-4f26-b5a1-bc0a0cbf5b54.jpg?v=1734603702"},{"product_id":"贾想i-9787516812969","title":"Jia Xiang I","description":"Just now, a young person asked, \"Who can save us?\" My answer might make them uncomfortable: That's servile thinking. Never wait for someone to save you. We all have to save ourselves step by step. I do this by painting one stroke at a time, and Jia Zhangke does it by film one inch at a time.\u003cbr\u003e --Chen Danqing★Chen Danqing calls him \"a different animal.\" This is the first book by Jia Zhangke, the first Chinese director to win the Cannes International Film Festival's \"Golden Carriage Award,\" to review his filmmaking and thought processes.\u003cbr\u003e I want to use film to show my concern for ordinary people, and that starts with respecting ordinary life. In the slow flow of time, I feel the joy and heaviness of each ordinary life. \"Life is like a long, tranquil river.\" Let us experience it. \u003cbr\u003eBei Dao wrote in an essay: People always think that the storm they have experienced is the only one, and they compare themselves to the storm, wanting to blow the next generation around as well.\u003cbr\u003e Finally, he asked, \"How will the next generation live?\" This is a question they themselves must answer.\u003cbr\u003e I don't know how we will live or what kind of movies we will make.\u003cbr\u003e Because “we” is such an empty word—who are we?\u003cbr\u003e ——Jia Zhangke★“Postal Green” leather soft hardcover design, suitable for carrying around, so you can carefully read “Chief Ke’s” profound thoughts on film art and social status. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first by renowned film director Jia Zhangke to reflect on his filmmaking and thought processes. It also provides a review and summary of his directorial career, spanning over a decade from 1996 to 2008, offering a comprehensive account of his reflections and activities over these years. First published in 2009 by Peking University Press, this book has been revised and reissued by the author. It captures Jia Zhangke's tireless exploration and unique reflections on the art of film throughout his career, complemented by representative interviews with key figures in the film, art, and media industries. Organized chronologically, the book focuses on Jia Zhangke's films, showcasing his sensitive and persistent journey and embodying his profound nostalgia through cinema.\u003cbr\u003e The camera faces matter but examines the spirit.\u003cbr\u003e Behind the characters' endless conversations, tedious singing, and mechanical dancing, we find that passion can only exist for a short time and conscience becomes an accidental phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003eThis is a film about the anxious reality, some beautiful things are disappearing from our lives quickly. We are facing collapse, in trouble, life becomes lonely again and thus noble.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026lt;Director's Note\u0026gt; (\"1998, Xiao Wu\")\u003cbr\u003e I want to use film to care for ordinary people, and that starts with respecting ordinary life. In the slow flow of time, I feel the joy and heaviness of each ordinary life. \"Life is like a long, tranquil river.\" Let us experience it.\u003cbr\u003e Bei Dao wrote in an essay: People always think that the storm they have experienced is the only one, and they compare themselves to the storm, wanting to blow the next generation around as well.\u003cbr\u003e Finally, he asked, \"How will the next generation live?\" This is a question they themselves must answer.\u003cbr\u003e I don't know how we will live or what kind of movies we will make.\u003cbr\u003e Because “we” is such an empty word—who are we?\u003cbr\u003e I don’t poeticize my experiences. \u003cbr\u003eAt a cinema in France, I watched Wim Wenders' latest documentary, \"Buena Vista Social Club.\" Filmed primarily in Cuba, this tale of veteran jazz musicians was also shot digitally and then transferred to film. The grainy images on screen shimmered with a documentary aesthetic, while the nimble nature of digital cameras also enriched the film's perspectives. The audience's enthusiastic applause throughout the viewing experience left me feeling a new cinematic aesthetic taking shape with the development of digital technology. The low contrast requirements, extremely small size, ease of operation, and low cost of digital cameras all offer a promising future.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026lt;After the advent of VCD and digital video cameras\u0026gt; \u003cbr\u003eOver the years, I've witnessed the struggles of countless friends who've tried to make a film. Some, clutching a stack of scripts, struggle to get through one company after another, facing \"No Salespeople Allowed\" signs. Faced with a slew of indignation, their self-esteem crippled, their ideals becoming a killer. Others pin their hopes on personal connections, seeking out countless friends, hoping to find a big boss who'll lend a hand. But the big boss is always somewhere else, and hope always lies ahead. One day, a \"boss\" suddenly takes your script, only to discover a year or two later that the \"boss\" was also trying to get something for nothing, and wasn't much of a pro. Others, after trying to \"PR\" with foreigners and attending a few parties at diplomatic residences, discover that foreign affairs are difficult to navigate, and that foreigners are just as practical. Entertainment newspapers, big and small, are booming, one after another. But strolling around Beitaipingzhuang, I still feel a sense of desolation. Opportunities seem plentiful, but I don't know where to start. So, I spend less time researching film and more time socializing. A few friends who share the same suffering would occasionally get together, drink alone at a food stall at Beihang University, and when they played rock-paper-scissors, they would start with: \"When you're in the world, who can avoid being stabbed? One knife, two knifes...\" \u003cbr\u003eTokyo Summer\u003cbr\u003e Later, someone told me that your choice of a thief as the central character lacked universal significance and didn't align with your intention of documenting this era. I believe that whether a character in a work is universal doesn't depend on their specific social status, but rather on your ability to grasp this specific character from a human perspective.\u003cbr\u003e I'm drawn to the character of the thief because it offers a perspective that allows me to explore the fascinating transformations of relationships. For example, Xiaowu's friend Xiaoyong, once a thief, transforms himself into a prominent local \"private entrepreneur\" through smuggling cigarettes and running a karaoke bar. There's a shift in value relationships here: smuggling cigarettes to trade, running a karaoke bar to entertainment. In this way, people like Xiaoyong can seamlessly adapt and shift their social status in such a world. A thief is always just a thief. \u003cbr\u003eThis aesthetic preference of mine may be partly rooted in my reading of Borges's novels. Of course, I read them in Chinese translation, so I have no way of judging the original text. Through the translation, I encounter concrete, unadorned images. Borges uses this concise language to construct a complex and elusive imaginary world for us through simple description—exactly what I deeply aspire to achieve when making films. For example, the sequence in \"Xiao Wu\" after Mei Mei kisses Xiao Wu, with the soundtrack from John Woo's \"The Killer,\" aims to create an effect of alienation: allowing our perception to freely move back and forth between the two planes of reality and unreality.\u003cbr\u003e A grassroots director from China (dialogue) \u003cbr\u003eBut once the film began, I was plunged into Edward Yang's meticulously orchestrated mundane life. This is a film about family, about middle age, and about the human condition. The story expands from the middle-class character played by Wu Nien-jen, revealing the truth behind a \"happy\" Chinese family. I can't recount the film's story in detail, because the pervasive \"happy\" truth is tense and heartbreaking. The child's closing line, \"I'm only seven, but I feel old,\" left me even more melancholy. Edward Yang's masterpiece so plainly captures the pressures of life that it even left me gasping for air. I can't connect \"Yi Yi\" with his previous films because Yang has truly surpassed himself. His precious life experience was finally uninterrupted by overpowering ideas, and in the slow and painful peeling away, the true feelings of fifty years old were exposed. And on that rainy afternoon in Paris, I myself had witnessed the most brilliant film of 2000.\u003cbr\u003e Who is Ushering in a New Era for Chinese-Language Films? \u003cbr\u003eMy approach is to stay completely out of the so-called \"circle,\" and even less interested in the grudges within it. In Beijing, I operate relatively independently, a somewhat closed-off system within which I can focus intensely on my work. From the outset, I've had a relatively complete plan for my own creation, hoping to gradually establish my own spiritual world within the film industry. This is a very appealing working method, allowing me to disregard external factors, including the success or failure of film festivals or the box office. Neither of these is my ultimate goal. What always preoccupies me are artistic issues, and artistic issues are your own business, unrelated to the circle or others.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026lt;Image Selection in the Experiential World (Written Discussion)\u0026gt; \u003cbr\u003eI particularly like a quote by Antonioni: \"When you enter a space, you should immerse yourself for ten minutes, listen to what the space has to say, and then engage in dialogue with it.\" This has been a consistent tenet of my filmmaking ethos. Only by standing in a real, live-action space can I understand how to shoot a scene. My storyboards are largely formed this way, and it's been incredibly helpful. Within a space, you can find something, feel it, and then trust it.\u003cbr\u003e I filmed in many spaces: train stations, bus stations, waiting rooms, dance halls, karaoke bars, billiard halls, roller skating rinks, teahouses... During editing, due to length constraints, many things had to be removed. I found a rhythm and order in these spaces, as many of them are related to travel, and I chose the ones that best fit this theme. \u003cbr\u003eFilmmaking is an industry, and filmmaking is a highly planned endeavor. A director's independent approach aims to minimize the constraints and restrictions imposed by industry. These constraints aren't just the pressures of producers and the controls of film censorship; filmmaking itself is a disciplined process. DV offers a sense of freedom from industry. When filming the bus station, the local guide first took us to the coal mine to film a workers' club. After we emerged, we found ourselves in the same spot in the film, where people were waiting for the bus. The sun was already setting, and it felt like a sudden, scorching sun. I filmed this spot, relentlessly, capturing a lot of footage. By the time I was filming the old man, I was already quite satisfied; he was so dignified, and I patiently filmed him. As my camera followed him onto the bus, a woman suddenly intruded. My sound engineer said I was trembling at that moment. As I stared at her, the background was a stark, flat workers' dormitory. At that moment, I felt a strong sense of religious faith, and I kept filming along. Then another man suddenly entered; I don't know their relationship, but in the end, both men left. Throughout the entire process, I felt every minute was a gift from God. \u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;Autobiography of \"Public Places\"\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e I still have the afternoon habit of meeting people at Huangtingzi: toasting with friends, slamming the table and arguing with enemies, giving interviews, trying to persuade producers, begging for help, seeking advice from experts. I don't drink much, but I talk a lot. My hometown, Fenyang, produces Fenjiu, often bearing inscriptions by famous people. Suddenly, a line from someone's poem came to mind: \"Only with wine can one flow through consciousness, and the joy of writing long essays never ceases.\" This intensified my mental activity. As I toasted, my heart suddenly sank, knowing that I hadn't gotten my business done, and sadness washed over me. The conversation suddenly waned, and I hunched over the table, watching the flickering candlelight. The clamor around me faded, evoking the atmosphere of \"Flowers of Shanghai.\" Then I thought of my aging and my own dawdling life. Life felt frivolous, my body heavy. I suddenly, strangely, left the table like an old man, and in the darkness on my way home, I vaguely saw memories of my childhood. Knowing I was a little tipsy, I told the driver: \"Only with wine can one flow through consciousness.\" The master has seen this many times and will not respond, knowing that the man will wake up again at dawn: he will smile apologetically and shake hands with people, completely unaware that he has been so embarrassed and behaved in an ugly manner. \u003cbr\u003eIn the afternoon, I was waiting for someone again. The customer hadn't arrived yet, and my earlier excitement had subsided. In tune with the afternoon's relaxed atmosphere, I stood up and looked out the window. Outside, people were busy cycling under the bright sun, chasing after some unknown fate. My heart felt like the fleeting nature of life, and I felt a pang of melancholy. Suddenly, a middle-aged woman came in, ordered a drink, and asked Xiao Chen to play some Jeff Chang. Before the song even started, she burst into tears. It turned out this bar was a place where you could cry.\u003cbr\u003e If I go to Huangtingzi now, the bar has been demolished and turned into a pile of dirt. It's a metaphor: everything can turn to dust and disappear. So I have to hold on to the movies, not for immortality, but just to shed a tear.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026lt;Stream of consciousness only possible with alcohol\u0026gt;","brand":"台海出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Softcover","offer_id":46415843754223,"sku":"9787516812969","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/IMG_4810_29b2cbf9-8a62-488d-96d4-b34e9087ccc8.jpg?v=1745481486"},{"product_id":"电影-我略知一二-9787542684202","title":"Dian Ying, Wo Lue Zhi Yi Er (Movies, I Know a Thing or Two)","description":"“Film does not exist for the 'beauty' you wish to see; film exists to touch people's hearts.” *Movies: What I Know a Little Bit About* is director Jia Zhangke's film study notes and a general education course on cinema for everyone, consisting of seventeen lectures. He uses hundreds of classic films as case studies, starting with film concepts and discussing topics including but not limited to: Why use long takes? What is the kinetic gene of cinema? How to understand innovation and rebellion? What is auteur cinema? How to stage mise-en-scène? Isn't documentary a film? What kind of language is cinema? Why is acting everyone's job? And so on.\n\nDirecting is a job where decisions are made constantly. When creating, the speed and quality of a director's reactions are supported by a cumulative understanding of cinema. Whether you are a veteran cinephile or a film enthusiast, it is worth contemplating these fundamental questions about cinema with director Jia Zhangke, as they are precisely what make cinema the most important mass medium of our era. This book is an accessible introduction to film history and cinematic concepts, a summary of Director Jia's nearly thirty years of experience in filmmaking, and a guide to film aesthetics with a contemporary cinematic spirit and distinct personal style, making it valuable reading and reference for all artists and audiences.\n\nJia Zhangke, director, producer, writer. Born in 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi Province. In 1993, he enrolled in the Literature Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and began working in film in 1995. 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It tells the mundane affairs of the ordinary people in the city, and the twists and turns of the plot seem to summon the important little things in life.\u003cbr\u003e In \"Upstairs and Downstairs\", they are like candles in the wind, seemingly fragile but actually strong. Once they leave, they drift in the sea of people; as if the day they leave also means that the difficulties have been overcome, and life has reached a spacious place, and no longer needs others to support each other. The author integrates the customs and political situation of tropical countries. People recall the past, and every time they turn a page, it seems that they are pushed out of the game by time and watch themselves back then.\u003cbr\u003e It rains frequently here, and many important things in life seem to happen in the rain. Those memories are still wet when they are opened now. Even if they are dry, they are like a book soaked in water, with ripples on the paper, which are difficult to calm down.\u003cbr\u003e The ordinary life in the secular town of Malaysia's tin capital and the humble lives deep in decades of history.\u003cbr\u003e The trauma of personal destiny and the displacement of families, the identity and emotional integration of different ethnic groups. In every sad and bleak background of life, there is the stubbornness of human nature. The ups and downs of each individual are permeated with the author's caring retrospection of history, the distant observation of real politics, and the complex complex of the ethnic identity of overseas Chinese.","brand":"北京十月文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085136974063,"sku":"9787530221280","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1fJWHprhLoZ-UnifApvM6Znl3k-ApCA8D_f6d5dc3a-419c-4d22-b5da-b4537275b161.jpg?v=1738963667"},{"product_id":"野菩萨-9787530223239","title":"Wild Bodhisattva","description":"✨The selected collection of Li Zishu's short stories has been reprinted. The world is a new world, and this world is the other side of the secular world.\u003cbr\u003e ✨Specially included is the new short story \"The Sea\" \u003cbr\u003e——This was the first time in their lives that they sat together and watched the sea.\u003cbr\u003e ※Editor's Recommendation※\u003cbr\u003e \"Wild Bodhisattva\" is a collection of short stories by Malaysian Chinese writer Li Zishu.\u003cbr\u003e Twelve short stories, twelve densely-woven, gorgeous, whimsical and lively short songs of joy and sorrow.\u003cbr\u003e \"Life is so moist, infested with all sorts of inexplicable mushrooms, ferns, tumors, fungi, scars, mosses, mildews, and diseases.\"\u003cbr\u003e Bizarre imaginary fables and mottled and sticky love all flow under Li Zishu's pen, painting a fantastic and magnificent picture of the Nanyang world.\u003cbr\u003e In addition to classic works such as \"Northern Frontier,\" \"Wild Bodhisattva,\" and \"Let's Watch Ai Iijima Together,\" this edition also includes Li Zishu's new short story, \"The Sea.\" With just a few strokes, it explores the unspeakable jealousy and love between people.\u003cbr\u003e \"They lay there, holding hands, like they were backstroke on a calm sea.\"\u003cbr\u003e ※Recommended by famous experts※ \u003cbr\u003eWandering between realism and absurdity, between the boredom of daily life and bizarre imaginary adventures, between anger and pain, Li Zishu seems to be still searching for a style that allows her to express herself freely. She is not afraid of approaching the abyss of trauma and is willing to repeatedly take the risk of exploring the bottom of the abyss.\u003cbr\u003e ——Wang Dewei ※Author’s own words※\u003cbr\u003e My biggest dream is to let Chinese readers rediscover the joy of reading short stories, experience the literary power brought by short stories, and further understand Malaysian Chinese literature.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Zishu","brand":"北京十月文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137006831,"sku":"9787530223239","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1gxebHWPdlVAq0DaASyJKTTnhjOwNsZIO.jpg?v=1734602758"},{"product_id":"告别的年代-9787530222317","title":"The Age of Farewell","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35947060\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/30VLCqw9kvakWC6dZ54qHV\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ Li Zishu's first novel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨\"Asia Weekly\" \"Top Ten Chinese Novels in the World in 2010\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ The 11th Huazong Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ 2011 China Times Kaijuan Good Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ The 4th \"Dream of Red Mansions Award\" Expert Recommendation Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ※Editor's Recommendation※\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨Reprinted ten years later\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ A narrative within a narrative within a book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ✨ Say goodbye to everything that has disappeared and will disappear!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e✨ Before \"Vulgar Land\", Li Zishu had poured all his experience and talent into \"The Age of Farewell\" without reservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A fleeing man, a frantic woman. Lost words, a damp town. Intertwined time and space, suspended in song, and fate flowing on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e After the birth of \"Vulgar Land\", looking back at these familiar elements, \"The Age of Farewell\" has undoubtedly taken on new life. Before retreating to the true nature of life, it retains the talent and ambition that are rare in young writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ※Introduction※\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e You are reading this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is a novel, a long one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It looks ancient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e But there is almost no sign of it being turned over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Its page number actually starts from 513,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It seems that page 1 of this book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Actually, it’s page 513 of the novel…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e You are a teenager living in an old hotel called the Mayflower. After your mother passes away from illness, you follow her last words and go to a quiet corner of the library, where you find a \"big book\" called \"The Age of Farewell.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDulian is the daughter of a street vendor who, by chance, marries Gangbo, a small-time gang leader who is more than 20 years her senior. Unbeknownst to her, she is actually the protagonist of the novel \"The Age of Farewell.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e After you finish reading this book, Durian's story gradually becomes clearer, and your own dark life story also slowly comes to light...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ※Recommended by famous experts※\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Whether writing family stories with a touch of historical significance or sketching the fleeting glimpses of contemporary life, Li Zishu excels at both. Creating a rich and eerie atmosphere to illuminate the dark corners of life is particularly her forte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Literary critic Wang Dewei\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The first Malaysian Chinese female writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Literary critic Zheng Shusen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In the Malaysian Chinese literary world where literary conditions are extremely poor, Li Zishu is a miracle no matter from which angle you look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Famous writer Huang Jinshu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI think this novel can be seen as a vivid re-creation of some lost novelistic technique, a magnificent stage being created from an impossible void. As a reader, I feel extremely happy; as a contemporary Chinese novelist, I think she is a rare, top-notch, and formidable rival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Famous writer Luo Yijun\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"北京十月文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137039599,"sku":"9787530222317","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1QmLcAbVGiQYLPAMZRaLIqkFHNSnLckA6_c7379d3a-455c-4618-b1ac-30f05194d757.jpg?v=1734602761"},{"product_id":"寂寞的十七岁-9787549559893","title":"Lonely Seventeen","description":"This time, with the collection and publication of my early short stories, I had the opportunity to reread those works from over a decade ago. As I read, I couldn't help but wonder: I was once that naive, and at that age, where did all those strange and wonderful ideas come from?…\u003cbr\u003eWhen I first arrived in America, I was completely unable to write. Due to the sudden change in environment, I was utterly disoriented and couldn't put pen to paper. At Christmas that year, the school dormitory closed, so I went to Chicago for Christmas, staying alone in a small hotel by Lake Michigan. One evening, I walked to the lakeside. Snow was falling, and everything was vast and indistinct. The lake was boundless, the skyscrapers along the shore twinkled with countless lights, Christmas carols echoed all around, and everywhere there was the hurried rush of the year's end. Standing on the embankment, a strange emotion suddenly stirred within me. It was a feeling of mixed sorrow and joy, a sense of the vastness of time and space. In that instant, my chaotic mind suddenly cleared and became lucid. Looking back, the 25-year-old me became a blur, gradually fading away. I felt transformed, and suddenly, many years seemed to have been added to my heart.\u003cbr\u003eHuang Tingjian’s poem says: “Ten years away from home, and the youthful heart grows old.” It didn't take ten years, one year was enough…\u003cbr\u003e— Pai Hsien-yung","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137105135,"sku":"9787549559893","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1ZlMC3_3axxP7aVVfG-9naFp8xYtPsAKK.jpg?v=1734602766"},{"product_id":"冬将军来的夏天-9787221150646","title":"The Summer When General Winter Comes","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/33721000\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/0ll1iwt2kFowV7UzmsdjwW\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The most anticipated Chinese literary masterpiece of 2019!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —— A healing book about love and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Editor's Recommendation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Four reasons why you must read it!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ A masterpiece of Chinese literature! A heartwarming and healing story that will leave you lingering on the experience!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e If you have ever been alone in the face of hardships in life, or even felt lonely and desperate, then you must not miss this book - \"The Summer When General Winter Comes\", a healing work about love and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e You are not alone!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ A new breakthrough work by Gan Yaoming, a representative writer of the Mesozoic era in Taiwan, China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is a new novel by Gan Yaoming, winner of the United Daily News Literary Award, the Wu Zhuoliu Literary Award, the Taipei Book Fair Grand Prize, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize! It was selected for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Highly recommended by four talented writers from different generations!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, famous writer Liang Hong, young writer Zhou Jianing, and Blancpain Prize winner Wang Zhanhei, four generations of writers praised it!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ After years of creation, the author broke through himself and wrote this novel for the first time from a perspective close to ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe empathy, innocence and warmth between the lines of Gan Yaoming's writing are like a pot of fire, and the various social realities cleverly incorporated into the novel, such as elderly people living together, mutual aid societies for the deceased, death and a good death, constantly stir our hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is a healing story that brings together a lot of pain and cruelty, but still allows people to feel \"love and being loved\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Three days before I was raped, my dead grandmother came back to find me.\" The beginning of the novel is shocking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I was like a broken person, having lost my job, been raped by a wicked person, framed by a colleague, betrayed by my biological mother, and hunted by criminals...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e At this moment, my grandmother, along with four \"old women\" and a dog, suddenly broke into my chaotic world, like a ray of light, shining into the cracks of my life...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Gan Yaoming's transformational masterpiece incorporates the seeds of magical realism between the lines, showing the most realistic social reality, paying attention to marginalized groups, and deeply exploring the meaning of \"life and death\" - until we are picked up from the garbage can of life, we don't know that we are deeply loved by people far away.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the moment when \"The Summer When General Winter Comes\" draws to an end, we see a pair of hands slowly rising up, using emotions and words filled with comfort to pick us up as we continue to fall in the frozen world of the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ◎ Celebrity recommendation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The forgotten and damaged embark on a doomsday carnival journey together, and the resonance of female emotions changes the trajectory of reality like magic. This is the most resolute resistance to evil, so funny, so innocent, so wonderful, and so sad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e — Zhou Jianing (writer and English literature translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This story takes place in summer, yet possesses the resilience to stand firm in winter. It is a dark allegory for kindergarten, a version of Thelma \u0026amp; Louise for the elderly. The lighthearted yet powerful \"Little Devil\" is not just about technique, but also about the courage one must have in life to fight back against all those moments of weakness when they bow to \"others.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —— Wang Zhanhei (young writer, winner of the inaugural Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStories aren't necessarily somewhere far away; they might lie within our lives, within our spirits. Within our lives and spirits, countless forgotten and distant places remain undiscovered. Gan Yaoming is one such tireless explorer. Gan Yaoming's work is primarily concerned with imagination and symbolism, and his focus is on questions of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In a sense, the mixture of magic and reality in his works constitutes a unique symbolic world that is both aesthetic and realistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —— Liang Hong (author, professor at Renmin University of China)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"贵州人民出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085137203439,"sku":"9787221150646","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1OoljIMJRdD6LjeXv_3VlO6kRfti6VQQT.jpg?v=1734602769"},{"product_id":"杀鬼-9787208164703","title":"Killing Ghosts","description":"★A representative novel by Gan Yaoming.\u003cbr\u003e ★Won the \"Top Ten Books Award\" from the China Times, the Taipei International Book Fair Foundation Book Fair Award, and the Books.com.tw 2009 Chinese Writing Award.\u003cbr\u003e \"Killing Ghosts\" is both a war narrative and a rural legend. With a touch of magical realism, a dazzling narrative technique, and a highly recognizable brushstroke, it blends history, reality, and rural legend to depict the tragic story of great times and the lives of ordinary people. \u003cbr\u003e★Nobel Prize winner in Literature Mo Yan highly recommended his work and commented: Such writing is astonishing!\u003cbr\u003e -------\u003cbr\u003e In a Taiwanese village called \"Guan Niu Wo\" lived a primary school student named \"Pa\". He was six feet tall and extremely strong. He was adopted by his grandfather Liu Jinfu and was adopted as a son by a Japanese officer, Lieutenant Colonel Oni, in 1940.\u003cbr\u003e With a childlike innocence, Pa witnesses through his psychic eyes the conflicts among humans, ghosts and gods in troubled times, as well as the extraordinary experiences of tiny lives in the war.\u003cbr\u003e A train that can run without rails enters the village.\u003cbr\u003e Whether they were training, fighting, or resting, the young soldiers never forgot to carry their family tombstones wherever they went;\u003cbr\u003e The old man imprisoned himself, and hard leaf buds sprouted between his toes, spreading into a forest;\u003cbr\u003e In a haunted house in Taipei after the war, Pa was sound asleep amidst the screams of ghosts, and was awakened by tranquility.\u003cbr\u003e \"Compared to the wounded and wailing soldiers on the battlefield, the screams of ghosts are nothing\"...","brand":"上海人民出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085137236207,"sku":"9787208164703","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1nINXOPdnrOyb6w9PYXJjS7YPA7un8M04.jpg?v=1734602772"},{"product_id":"夜行货车-9787510884238","title":"Night truck","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34937627\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/3KwVOpUUQMApB64QWXDflp\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe complete works of 20th-century literary giant Chen Yingzhen are published in mainland China for the first time. These stories offer a heartwarming and profound account of human love, a lament for the idealist's soul. \"Night Freight Train\" is a classic in Chen Yingzhen's \"Washington Building\" series. The Washington Building in Taipei in the 1980s hides the truth about our workplaces today, a microcosm of the fate of the modern city. Going to work is a huge deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Young people unable to return home are a prophecy of the times we live in. Which city truly represents our present-day existence? Well-fed, luxurious, vibrant, and happy, or one characterized by environmental collapse, human scars, and a lost culture? Every working person struggling in the city can find their own story in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Highly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Zhu Tianxin, Dai Jinhua, Zhao Gang, and Xu Zhiyuan. \"Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's relentless critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also imbued with a sense of the common man, caring deeply about the inner lives and destinies of ordinary people.\" (Xu Zhiyuan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Going to work is a big scam.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Night Truck\" compiles six short and medium-length novels by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1967 and 1982, including \"Night Truck,\" \"A Day in the Life of an Office Worker,\" \"Cloud,\" and \"Emperor of All Merchants,\" as well as two novels on the Vietnam War. Focusing on the well-fed, corrupt, extravagant, dazzling, and happy \"backstreets\" of post-war Taiwan, the book reflects on environmental collapse, human scars, and the loss of cultural ground. Through the lens of Taipei's \"Washington Building\" in the 1980s, it depicts the alienated lives, suppressed dreams, humiliated dignity, and silently wounded hearts of people in an era of rapid economic development. Huang Jingxiong, who quit his job to pursue his film dream but was forced to work, Zhang Weijie, whose faith in capitalist civilization turned to disillusionment, Wen Xiuying, a female worker whose strike was suppressed, and Lin Dewang, a small-time employee at a multinational corporation who came from a poor background and was driven to mental illness by career setbacks... The stories of these \"determined to succeed\" office workers and these young people unable to return home speak to the prophecies of the times we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Night Truck\" leaves behind a capillary-like, vivid portrayal of Taiwan's rapidly changing times. Reading it today is as intimate as looking in the mirror, seeing the reflection of today's era and ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Celebrity Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Leo Ou-fan Lee (Professor of the Department of Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) - Chen Yingzhen is one of the few \"master-level\" novelists in the history of Taiwanese literature. His works have long become classics. When I was teaching in the United States, I would always use his short stories when talking about Taiwanese literature: \"The General's Family\", \"My Brother Kangxiong\", \"Night Truck\", \"Washington Building\" series... These works have English translations, and American students are also moved by them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDai Jinhua (Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University) - Castro, John Berger, and Chen Yingzhen all held special places in the 20th century and in my own life. But their deaths don't directly impact me, but rather reminiscence, an echo of our mourning for that era. Their passing wasn't the end of a great era; that era had already ended before they left. They died after their own era had ended, and the future they called for is still far away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Zhu Tianxin (author) — Fortunately, our time has Chen Yingzhen. Twenty years ago and now, reading Wen Xiuying's diary in \"Cloud,\" I still can't help but sigh: How unreal, yet so moving!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Xu Zhiyuan (writer and founder of One Way Space)—Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's unceasing critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also full of a sense of the common people, concerned with the hearts and destinies of ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137268975,"sku":"9787510884238","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1sOXF9PieJrTn3zbM8RyJDjclk8ah9lrX.jpg?v=1734602774"},{"product_id":"将军族-9787510887390","title":"Generals","description":"【Editor's Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003eA must-read classic, ranked alongside \"Call to Arms\" and \"To Live\" among the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century, this is the first complete collection of Chen Yingzhen's novels published in mainland China. A pioneering writer and an idol for intellectuals on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, he has been called the \"Lu Xun of Taiwan.\" His novels touch upon the human heart, \"constantly observing people, life, and labor from the perspective of the weak and the small.\" A classic Chinese novel that has been a hit in Taiwan for half a century, \"The General's Family\" includes beloved works such as \"The Noodle Stall,\" \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" \"Tang Qian's Comedy,\" and \"The First Job,\" many of which have been included in university Chinese language textbooks.\u003cbr\u003e The untold suffering and tears of ordinary people, their incredible love and courage. The missing, those struggling to survive, those imprisoned by their faith, the insulted and hurt. Literature helps the insulted regain their dignity. A couple operating a noodle stall on the streets of Taipei, drifting office workers, ordinary people bearing the scars of war and history, young people imprisoned by their faith... These tender and poignant ukiyo-e paintings, a collective portrait of the fates of ordinary people in the 20th century, tell the stories of each of us in the backstreets of our time. \u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Chiang Hsun, Wang Anyi, Lü Zheng-hui, Wang Dewei, and Liang Wen-dao. \"The General's Family is a Taiwanese allegory. Chen Ying-zhen's writing speaks directly to the pain of the human heart.\" (Pai Hsien-yung) \"I've read My Brother Kang-xiong over a hundred times, and I cry every time.\" (Sanmao)\u003cbr\u003e ★ Includes a bonus volume titled \"Reading Chen Yingzhen,\" featuring essays by six renowned literary figures from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. These essays, by Pai Hsien-yung, Chiang Hsun, Wang Anyi, Lü Zhenghui, Lan Bozhou, and Liang Wendao, offer a glimpse into Chen Yingzhen's worldly landscape from the perspectives of literature, thought, and the individual and his era.\u003cbr\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003cbr\u003e \"In the next life. Then we'll all be as pure as babies.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The General's Family\" compiles 24 short and medium-length stories by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1959 and 1967. These include such beloved masterpieces as \"The Noodle Stall,\" \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" \"Tang Qian's Comedy,\" and \"The First Job.\" These stories depict the fates of ordinary people in the 20th century: Taipei night market vendors and sick children; the thin, pale anarchist Kangxiong; the rural teacher Wu Jinxiang, returning from the distant battlefield; the romantic and imaginative young man Lin Wuzhi under the apple tree; the tragic love story of the triangular-faced and skinny girl stranded in a foreign land; the intellectual \"trendsetter\" Tang Qian; and the nihilistic and world-weary \"seafarer\" Hu Xinbao. These twenty-four stories, brimming with tearful love and tender, painful sympathy, moving soul-searching confessions, and melancholic poetic lyricism, \"The General's Family\" is a series of elegy for the mundane world, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the lives of ordinary people and generating a profoundly moving power. This book has been selected as one of the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003ePai Hsien-yung (author) — \"The General's Family\" is a Taiwanese allegory. Chen Yingzhen's writing speaks directly to the pain of the human heart. He possesses a special compassion for people, especially those who are vulnerable. This is his heart, and it is also the most moving aspect of his writing. Chen Yingzhen is a true artist, with his own beliefs and pursuits, and his own deep love. He and I have a mutual respect, both literary and spiritual.\u003cbr\u003e Jiang Xun (writer and painter) — One person who has influenced my reading is my teacher, Chen Yingzhen. Reading Chen Yingzhen's novels is truly an aesthetic experience. I think it's crucial to reread Chen Yingzhen today, in the 21st century, because today happens to be an era of fading dreams. \"My Brother Kangxiong,\" a novel he wrote in college, deeply moved me, a bit like Turgenev's \"Rudin\" and Goethe's \"The Sorrows of Young Werther.\" In fact, we all have dreams during adolescence. There were times when we didn't even believe in those dreams. \u003cbr\u003eWang Anyi (author and professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University) — All my efforts were actually preparation for meeting this person (Chen Yingzhen). My first encounter with him was in \"The General's Family.\" The novel tells the story of a man with a triangular face and a skinny girl, who were thrown together by fate and left to depend on each other. This story, with its profoundness and tenderness, touched my heart.\u003cbr\u003e Der-wei Wang (Professor of East Asian Studies at Harvard University) - Chen Yingzhen is Taiwan's most important literary creator of the past sixty years. His writing not only expresses potentially controversial political positions, but, on a larger scale, he uses this perspective to illustrate his personal legacy of an ideal China and an ideal Chinese nation, a utopian aspiration. The story itself is complex and moving. \u003cbr\u003eLü Zhenghui (Publisher, Renjian Publishing House, Taiwan) — Chen Yingzhen is the most deserving Taiwanese writer of the past half century to be called an \"intellectual.\" His journey as an intellectual is worthy of our attention. His path bears witness to a writer who faithfully sought to reflect his time and circumstances. If he failed, history bears some responsibility—in certain historical periods, being a faithful and outstanding writer was not easy.\u003cbr\u003e Sanmao (writer) - The first time I read novels in Bihui—Chen Yingzhen's \"My Brother Kangxiong\" and \"The General's Family\"—I was deeply moved. I realized how captivating literature can be. There are so many familiar souls in this world.\u003cbr\u003e Xu Fuguan (scholar) - Chen Yingzhen is \"the first person on both sides of the Taiwan Strait\" because he reveals the truth that the vast majority of Chinese people are rootless. The development of the structure of each of Chen Yingzhen's novels is a process of exploring human nature.","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137367279,"sku":"9787510887390","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Mhf9AG-V0I7IAvkDkQ7Zbpabq37Oi7OM.jpg?v=1734602777"},{"product_id":"赵南栋-9787510884214","title":"Zhao Nandong","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34937628\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1EtH2Ai3ACmMVdZte9arDD\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A classic of 20th-century Chinese fiction, the complete works of Chen Yingzhen are published in mainland China for the first time. Human warmth, human bones, human courage. Walking through the backstreets of contemporary Taiwanese history, an intellectual writes about his own era: its most turbulent history, its most fervent dreams, its most demanding youth, and the whirlwind of life and death. \"Zhao Nandong\" includes seven short and medium-length works, including the beloved masterpieces \"Mountain Road,\" \"Bellflower,\" and \"Zhongxiao Park.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Liang Wendao's \"One Thousand and One Nights\" explores reading material, obliterated history, insulted and damaged souls, and the past and present lives of Taiwan's left-wing youth. How should one truly live? They once walked the dark night, sacrificed their lives for their beliefs, and ultimately left no name behind. \"I write these stories to show that the human spirit once reached such heights. Will a generation that died so brightly become just a tiny ripple in the cold, long history?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHighly recommended by Pai Hsien-yung, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lin Hwai-min, Yang Zhao, Lan Bozhou, and Xu Zhiyuan. \"That was my first encounter with Mr. Chen Yingzhen's work. With my face swollen and my eyes narrowed to slits, I cried as I read, then read again afterward... Rereading \"Mountain Road\" and \"Bellflower\" over the past few years still brings tears to my eyes. He has an unwavering love for the weak and marginalized, and a rage against the injustices of the world. He has moved us for so long.\" (Lin Hwai-min)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Please fight bravely.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Zhao Nandong\" compiles seven short and medium-length novels by Chen Yingzhen, written between 1983 and 2001, including the acclaimed works \"Bellflower,\" \"Mountain Road,\" and \"Zhongxiao Park.\" This period of writing primarily reflects on history, recounting the past and present of Taiwan's left-wing youth during the 20th century's \"most turbulent history, most fervent dreams, most demanding youth, and whirlwind of life and death.\" Traversing the dust of time, with tears in their eyes, and with a trembling soul, they listen to the storms, fires, and lightning of a bygone generation, confronting the history of the \"White Terror,\" which violence and rumors sought to obliterate. Gao Dongmao, a teacher in Yingzhen who was hunted down and became a \"savage\" in a cave; Cai Qianhui, a girl on the \"mountain road\" with a religious will to atone for her sins; Zhao Nandong, a descendant of the left-wing in prison who lives a decadent and nihilistic life; Yang Bin, a Taiwanese veteran in mainland China who finds it difficult to return home... Chen Yingzhen redeems all the voices and footprints that have been suppressed and erased by the times through his powerful writing, and gives new features and voices to those who have been insulted and harmed in the \"back streets\" of history, recreating their reality and ideals, weakness and nobility, despair and hope, and tempering the nobility of being human and the full weight of the word faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven novels split the thick fog that enveloped the entire 20th century, excavating the dark strata of history to illuminate the light of human divinity. This is the most authentic history and the most authentic poetry, shaping the spirit of Taiwan after a century of turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lin Hwai-min (writer, founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre) — When I was sixteen, I had sinus surgery. A friend brought Chen Yingzhen's novels to visit me. That was my first introduction to his work. With my face swollen and my eyes narrowed to slits, I cried as I read, then reread them afterward... Rereading \"Mountain Road\" and \"Bellflower\" over the past few years still brings tears to my eyes. He had an undying love for the weak and marginalized, and a deep anger at the injustices of the world. He never shouted or accused, but always moved and inspired me with his uniquely gentle \"Chen Yingzhen voice.\" When I feel discouraged or feel I'm \"slipping into depravity,\" I return to reading Chen Yingzhen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiang Wendao (writer, media professional, and planner of Kanlixiang) - Chen Yingzhen's novels possess the tenderness, twists, and circuitousness of Japanese literature. His works are always filled with explorations of various values. He doesn't preach or indoctrinate readers, but rather stimulates constant reflection, doubt, and questioning. This is the critical spirit that a leftist should possess. Leftist love means loving those who have been insulted and hurt in society, those who have been silenced and forgotten in the corners of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Hou Hsiao-hsien (film director) — Chen Yingzhen's novels possess a unique energy, a moving power that directly impacts me through the medium of fiction. What is Chen Yingzhen's true meaning to us? I believe it comes down to his most fundamental and simple \"personality.\" I'd like to film his novels \"Bellflower,\" \"Backstreet,\" and \"The Noodle Stall.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Xu Zhiyuan (writer and founder of One Way Space)—Chen Yingzhen is my idol. He represents the intellectual's unceasing critical spirit, refusing to compromise with the trends of the times; he is also full of a sense of the common people, concerned with the hearts and destinies of ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137465583,"sku":"9787510884214","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1_RjPb_7DcUqV73KEqZyHH15nco00RDm2.jpg?v=1734602779"},{"product_id":"破晓时分-9787555910893","title":"At dawn","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35451966\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1fujAvoMacRJn1BpnoGIWA\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Listen to this chain: how many sins! how many evils! and how many grievances, groping in the darkness, sliding on the frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At Dawn\" is a collection of short stories by Taiwanese writer Zhu Xining, featuring thirteen classic short stories, published in mainland China for the first time. The characters expand from the heroic heroes of \"Iron Slurry\" to ordinary citizens, contrasting the rural legends of northern Taiwan with the urban charm of Taiwan. Ancient Greek tragedy evolves into the mundane daily life and inner battles of ordinary people, presenting a more profound and modern landscape. \"Spring Gone\" explores the lingering emotions of a silk weaver on a spring day, \"White Grave\" commemorates the fall of a hero, \"Grain Thief\" mourns the decline of integrity, and \"Also a Taste\" explores the stream-of-consciousness musings of a married man. \"Fucheng White Iron\" tells the story of a family of four, depicting the cage-like stagnation of urban life and the weariness of life. The short story of the same name, adapted from the Song Dynasty vernacular novel \"The Wrongful Execution of Cui Ning,\" directly explores the entanglement between man and the absurdity of fate. A shocking tragedy, it asks, \"How does the process of degeneration begin for each of us?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt dawn, the world is unforgiving, desire and regret, sin and guilt, intertwine and ebb, highlighting human existence, human desire, and human spirit. In \"At Dawn,\" the robust and tragic style of northern Chinese literature remains, while exploring a rich range of modernist narratives, initiating an experiment in Taiwanese modernist writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"河南文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137629423,"sku":"9787555910893","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1fixJZct-456z9FJtyCFHvGgq7HG84mqz.jpg?v=1734602782"},{"product_id":"旱魃-9787510875304","title":"drought demon","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/30348030\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/7LY2zbJWRmnUQJicKVETRi\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Mo Yan's Literary Pioneer: Zhu Xining's Classic Novel Published in Mainland China for the First Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"I'm glad I only read 'Hanba' now, otherwise I would have lost the courage to write 'Red Sorghum'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan writes in his preface: \"Mr. Zhu is my true pioneer. I'm thankful to have read \"Hanba\" only now; otherwise, I would have lost the courage to write \"Red Sorghum.\" \"Hanba\" is a masterpiece that inherits the precious tradition of plain description in classical Chinese fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. A classic novel by Taiwanese writer Zhu Xining is published in mainland China for the first time. Zhu Xining, a novelist always one step ahead and a pioneer in the exploration of modernist literature, left home at a young age and traveled the world. He used language to find his homeland, he used language to create his homeland; language became his homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This kind of language needs to be read while running; it will sink to the bottom if thrown into water.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hanba,\" a classic novel by Zhu Xining, is set in the distant world of the Yellow River in North China. It tells the story of a village plagued by drought and water shortages, but the well at the Tang family oil mill continues to flow with clear springs. Rumors of a \"Hanba\" monster have surfaced in the village. Drawing inspiration from ancient local legends, the author centers on the love story between Tong Qiuxiang, a woman from a circus, and Tang Tielian, a bandit leader. The intensity of their relationship echoes the dryness of nature, creating this powerful novel. \"Hanba\" is a masterpiece that inherits the precious tradition of plain description in classical Chinese fiction. Every character's voice is instantly recognizable: Elder Jin, the embodiment of Zhu's ideals; Tang Tielian, the bandit leader who murders countless people but then returns to the right path; Tong Qiuxiang, the brave, daring, and resourceful; and Tong Laodi, the troupe owner who, despite poverty and destitution, stubbornly maintains his dignity. These characters come alive and vividly. Mr. Zhu's language is powerful, rich, and rich in imagery, as if plucked from the poetry of Li He, like a wall of rubble, studded with sharp edges. This pioneering work, written half a century ago, is a representative work of Mr. Zhu Xining's exploration of modernist literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"九州出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137662191,"sku":"9787510875304","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Y3lTzO0nRIpb8-BBDfFAQu0Y0JP-pX9w.jpg?v=1734602785"},{"product_id":"海边的房间-9787555911630","title":"Seaside Room","description":"This representative collection of short stories by emerging Taiwanese novelist Huang Liqun features twelve broken people, twelve breathtakingly good stories. The novelist crafts elegant, refined Chinese with meticulously crafted compositions, neatly slicing the joys and sorrows of life, depicting the bleak world of urban misfits: an abandoned daughter and her adoptive father in an old apartment, a rural fortune teller and his ailing son, a sleepwalking otaku, a middle-aged woman living alone and her calico cat... The playful language, unexpectedly frozen endings, and meticulous observations of ordinary human life create a unique literary tension. Impermanence is often the most commonplace, and this tale of the world, written by an old soul with warmth and a touch of elegance, stirs the hearts and minds of ordinary people, the passions and sorrows of the frustrated, and the daily hardships and loneliness of our lives. \u003cbr\u003eHighlights★ Impermanence is often the most commonplace. This masterpiece by emerging Taiwanese novelist Huang Liqun, published in simplified Chinese for the first time, is a masterpiece. Winner of numerous Taiwanese literary awards, acclaimed by writers from across Taiwan and across generations, and highly anticipated on Douban, the highly anticipated Chinese-language novel \"Room by the Sea\" arrives this summer. Huang Liqun is a representative figure of Taiwan's emerging generation of novelists. Her short story collection \"Room by the Sea\" has won numerous Chinese-language awards, including the Times Literary Award, the United Daily News Literary Award, and the Lin Rongsan Literary Award. The film adaptation of the novel was selected for the Golden Horse Film Festival. This simplified Chinese edition, featuring three new stories hand-selected by the author, represents the culmination of over two decades of her writing career. \u003cbr\u003eA love fortuneteller, writing about the world from a seasoned soul, tinkering with the subtle mechanisms of fate—with a shrewd heart and a shrewd pen, novelist Huang Liqun crafts elegant and refined Chinese, delicately crafting stories that predict love and fate, neatly slicing the drama of human joy and sorrow. Her writing, warm and playful, yet cold and captivating, stirs the hearts and minds of ordinary people, the passions and sorrows of the frustrated, and the daily struggles and uncertainties of life. Be captivated by the masterful beauty of Chinese, and immerse yourself in Huang Liqun's formula for love.\u003cbr\u003e The world of urban misfits, twelve broken people, twelve breathtakingly good stories—a love song for the lonely, a place to settle in life's treacherous journey. \"I write about all sorts of unpleasantness, fragmentedness, withering, and ruin—those little flaws in life that I can't help but repeatedly touch. If a person can't find a comfortable place in society, they must deceive themselves, and long-term self-deception will only lead to their destruction.\" The playful language and unexpected, frozen reversals of endings create the unique literary tension of Huang Liqun's works. \u003cbr\u003e\"It's been a long time since I've reached such a fever pitch while reading, feeling my skin burn.\" Writers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including Guo Qiangsheng, Luo Yijun, Ke Yufen, Zhang Yiwei, and Qi Jinnian, raved about her. -- \"She possesses a splendid and elegant talent, yet within that beauty lies a subtle chill. Huang Liqun's writing is as warm as the sun, as swift as wind and rain. On a quiet, sunny afternoon, I still feel the warmth and joy of peaceful times, but in the blink of an eye, dark clouds appear from nowhere, and heavy rain falls.\" \u003cbr\u003e◎ Comments and Recommendations: Writing possesses an innate nobility. Her stories are like the inconceivable, graceful movements of amoebas under a microscope. — Luo Yijun Liqun is just like this, possessing a splendid and elegant talent, yet within that beauty lies a subtle chill. Her writing is as warm as the sun and as swift as the wind and rain. On a quiet, sunny afternoon, one still feels the warmth and joy of peaceful times, but suddenly, dark clouds appear out of nowhere and the rain pours down. — Ke Yufen Liqun's novels invite us to hear another kind of \"why not?\" question: Why can't pure love be hard to swallow? Why can't despair be boring and trivial? Her novels reveal a leisurely pace, a reluctance to seek novelty, a reluctance to overthink things, and instead cultivate a unique theme: beautiful fragmentation. There aren't many novels worth anticipating, but I've finally gotten this one. — Guo Qiangsheng It's been a long time since I've felt this way: facing a book, slowly reading word by word, afraid to finish it, reluctant to read too fast; reaching a boiling point, nearly burning my fingertips as I touch the pages. I was astonished to discover such a brilliant novelist—Huang Liqun's \"Room by the Sea\" is a collection of novels that truly defines what a masterpiece is. Qi Jinnian: a shrewd mind, a shrewd pen, and a self-satisfied person. Fu Yue'an's writing is exquisitely sharp, its structure clear and layered, astonishing. I've never seen female jealousy portrayed so profoundly and so deeply. Ji Ji: Reality is most unpredictable, yet the characters themselves yearn for a normal life; the dialectic between impermanence and normality is the main theme of Huang Liqun's latest collection of novels. \"Oh, you're here too?\" Zhang Ailing asked. Where? In the investment market, like Huang Liqun's kind face, donning the vest of regulating the rhythm of time, tightening it a little, then a little, and joining her in her obsession with the formulas she loves. Ji Dawei: Huang Liqun's \"Tasting the Dish\" explores the complex connotations of maternal love through a small incision. In Taiwan, Huang Liqun has a vast readership, not just because she has won four of the island's three major newspaper literary awards in five years, but also because she captures the turbulent life she depicts through her writing, restoring the story to its true essence, neatly and cleanly, a play of tragedy and comedy for the reader. The first work of hers I read was the short story \"Bosuanzi,\" about AIDS. A sick son cares for his adoptive father, a game of rock-paper-scissors between illness and aging. The novel is written with a calm and composed demeanor, layering down the typical lows, neither fighting nor fleeing. To put it in a trendy way, the ultimate emptiness of life is like an unfinished chess game stagnating within the family. It's a tricky subject, but there's a moving line in the text: Huang Liqun writes, \"Impermanence is often the most ordinary.\" —Zhang Yiwei: The most original aspect of Huang Liqun's most celebrated short story, \"The Room by the Sea,\" lies not in the violence, sensuality, or even the ethical dramas so commonplace in social news and film and television dramas, but in the author's attempt to capture a certain \"uncanny self-evident quality.\" Thus, the absurdity of reality, so often spoken of by us, is transformed into the \"natural order\" of the human world by the novelist. —Zhang Dinghao: This author isn't wielding a pen, but a knife. —Douban netizen Zhinuan: \"I felt the same surprise I felt when I first read A Yi's \"Bird, Saw Me,\" but I discovered a different theme.\" \"Abnormal love\" may be the most striking theme in Huang Liqun's short stories, but she goes far beyond that. With a sophisticated plot and a casual style, she seemingly understates but in fact deeply explores numerous \"possibilities,\" loneliness, emptiness, waiting, and even the absurdity and black humor of ordinary life. There are some echoes of McEwan's early years, particularly in \"First Love, Last Rites.\" ——Douban user MagicDon","brand":"河南文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085137694959,"sku":"9787555911630","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1lxJCZPY0GcA6teAYefsQsxVsH7fsy3UY.jpg?v=1738966495"},{"product_id":"鳄鱼手记-9787547739525","title":"Crocodile Notes","description":"【Content Introduction】\u003cbr\u003e \"No matter how much pain and suffering I have to endure, I will still say that love is immortal.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Crocodile Notes\" is Taiwanese author Qiu Miaojin's debut novel, her most significant, and a classic of feminist literature in the Chinese-speaking world. Set against the backdrop of the protagonist \"I\"'s university life, the novel follows the story of the budding, deepening, and ultimately divorcing relationships, confronting the depths of intense love and the unfathomable sorrow of others, offering a glimpse into the sensitive, self-destructive world of youth. It offers a true portrayal of the lost and troubled mental journey of a generation of Taiwanese youth in the late 20th century, and a personal account of the arduous journey of gender identity and self-identification. With a penetrating, shimmering touch, the author delves into the hidden layers of the soul. Through these candid self-analyses and the dialectical reversals of erotic imaginations, moments of profound intertwining humanity, and powerful and sublime experiences of life, the novel profoundly explores the eternal theme of humanity: how, through the purest of emotions, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world, reaching from the individual to the depths of the universal human heart—a brilliant intellectual passion. \u003cbr\u003eInterspersed throughout these stories is the monologue of an anthropomorphic crocodile, forming a poetic allegory independent of the main plot. The crocodile, dressed in human form, ultimately floats down to the ocean in a flaming bathtub, alluding to the loneliness and exclusion faced by the \"crocodile\/marginalized person\" in human society, creating a bizarre artistic effect of polyphonic double voice.\u003cbr\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003e★ This debut novel by Qiu Miaojin, a brilliant and legendary female writer in the Chinese-speaking world at the end of the 20th century, is a love story that astonished the Chinese-speaking world and ushered in a literary classic of an era. Highly recommended by Jiang Xun, Luo Yijun, Chen Xue, and Guo Yujie. Qiu Miaojin was a legend who shook Taiwan. A genius who dedicated her life to creation, she emerged with a fierce and intense talent, and then tragically and resolutely departed from the world. Her works have been widely praised, quoted, discussed, and studied. Her life, deeds, and even the novels, writers, and filmmakers she read and admired have become models for a generation of young artists. \"Notes of a Crocodile\" bravely transforms hidden female emotions into brilliant writing. It depicts a difficult journey of gender identity and a story of extremely passionate and tragic love, marking the scale and shadow of an era. Many of the words and images in the book have become symbols of self-identification for generations. \u003cbr\u003e\"No matter how much pain and suffering I endure, I will still speak of the immortality of love.\" A classic of feminist literature in the Chinese-speaking world, this book offers a profound exploration of the intimate emotions of women, moments of profound intersection between humanity, and a powerful and solemn experience of life. Written in allegory and code, this lengthy love letter reveals a woman's love experience, both magnificent and heartbreaking, fierce yet tender. Its rich and vibrant emotions, and the serious and sincere qualities of life, showcase the nobility and purity of love, its permanence and absence. The novel is imbued with a sharp philosophical insight, reaching from the individual to the depths of the universal human heart, revealing the complex, ever-changing, and ravaged inner landscape of the human soul. A rich and abundant beauty, a noble and captivating vitality, emanates a breathtaking and captivating power. Love falters, life is ruined. Only by facing oneself and life with utmost authenticity and courage can one defy the tyranny of fate and the vulgarity of society. \u003cbr\u003eA crocodile's heartfelt confession, a lament from the margins of life, dedicated to every human who pretends to be normal. \"Crocodile Notes\" depicts the plight of those on the fringes of society with the uncanny touch of a fairy tale or fable, demonstrating a keen grasp of the undercurrents of thought in a transitional generation and conveying an irrepressible excitement about the new possibilities of gender and sexuality. Inside everyone lives a crocodile, and sometimes it's necessary to hide, to disguise oneself in human form, to rediscover oneself in the darkness, and to explore the world. Since 1994, this book has continued to send a message of concern to those who are different, or who believe they are different: \"Hi, dear crocodile, how are you?\" \u003cbr\u003eThis hardcover commemorative collector's edition, which received the Times Literary Award and was recommended by \"Eight Minutes of Reading,\" has been translated into numerous languages ​​and received widespread acclaim. \"Notes of a Crocodile\" has been translated into English, French, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Italian, among other languages. In 2017, \"Notes of a Crocodile\" was included in the \"New York Review of Books\" \"Revisited Classics\" list. Qiu Miaojin is the second Chinese-language author to be featured in this series, following Eileen Chang. Authors Luo Yijun and Lai Xiangyin have dedicated their novels \"Sending Away Sadness\" and \"Afterwards,\" respectively, to Qiu Miaojin's memory and tribute.","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085138743535,"sku":"9787547739525","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1T6rKUbRzPoFDSkFlqd029a_uVgdRrhO6.jpg?v=1734602790"},{"product_id":"蒙马特遗书-9787547739570","title":"Montmartre suicide note","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35512888\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/53Yqo9NKyBhRAKrtPbZdJn\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Content Introduction】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Is there really no salvation in life? I don't believe it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1995, Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris at the age of twenty-six. The twenty-one letters in \"Last Letters from Montmartre\" are her lifelong confession to the world. The intensity of her passion, the pain of betrayal, her reckless pursuit of possession, and her poignant self-analysis—Qiu Miaojin's writings chronicle her courage and determination, as well as her confusion, setbacks, and despair. Drawing on her own poignant and emotional experiences, she contemplates and reconstructs the principles of love, pondering the relationship between love and death, life, and art. The numerous references to Western art films and classic literature in \"Last Letters from Montmartre\" form a series of hidden paths, charting the growth of Qiu Miaojin's spiritual world. They reflect the spirit of a generation of young Taiwanese and, through them, witness the profound landscape of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Last Letters from Montmartre\" has become a classic of women's literature in the Chinese-speaking world. For generations of young people, Qiu Miaojin's writing has provided not only a classic reading material but also a pilgrimage site and a soulful confession in the face of honest love. Only the most sincere artistic spirit can comfort the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"With such a soul existing, the world is so beautiful that I am even more reluctant to die.\" I hope this will be everyone's admiration after reading \"Montmartre Testament\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQiu Miaojin, a legendary female writer in the Chinese-speaking world at the end of the 20th century, wrote this final epistolary novel: 21 confessional letters farewell to the world. Highly recommended by Jiang Xun, Luo Yijun, Chen Xue, and Lai Xiangyin, \"A book that made me cry.\" Qiu Miaojin was a legend who shook Taiwan. A genius who dedicated her life to creation, she emerged with a fierce and intense talent, yet also departed the world with a resolute and tragic farewell. Her works have been widely praised, quoted, discussed, and studied. Her life, deeds, and even the novels, writers, and filmmakers she read and admired have become models for a generation of young artists. \"Montmartre Letters\" is an analysis of her farewell journey, a confessional letter forged from youth and intense emotional pain. Like a Baroque fugue, it presents a young artist's dazzling, starry depiction of love and death, life and art. The flower-like radiance of her will is deeply moving yet unbearable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Is there really no salvation in life? I don't believe it.\" A young artist's ultimate exploration of love and life, a heart-shaking bible of love, a classic in the hearts of young people. Deeply plunging into life's darkest pain, struggling with the meaning of love and death, she reconstructs the laws of love with unwavering courage, and with the resoluteness and purity of death, bears witness to the immortality of love. \"Love is more than emotion, sentiment, or passion; it is truly a 'will.'\" A young artist's pure and ardent desire for love, a young person's self-construction and self-destruction. She vows to spend her life proving her love and beauty, ultimately returning to the eternal identity of artist and lover.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With such a soul, the world is truly beautiful, and I'm even more reluctant to die.\" A carbon copy of the soul, a fiery, compelling passion. \"Perhaps no other writer since Yukio Mishima has so mercilessly stripped away the mask of the true self.\" — A young man's profound, intense exploration of life, a pure work about love, loyalty, betrayal, art, the soul, and fate. Only the most sincere artistic spirit can comfort the human soul. \"Life is so beautiful, but it cannot be obtained, and it will never be obtained. Such desolation requires even greater strength.\" The pursuit of eternal love is no longer attainable. Now she pursues only eternity and self-expression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis hardcover commemorative collector's edition has been recognized as a Golden Tripod Award-winning book of the year, recommended by the United Daily News' Reader's Best Book of the Year in Literature, and recommended by \"Eight Minutes of Reading.\" It has been translated into numerous languages ​​and has received widespread acclaim. \"Montmartre Last Letters\" has been translated into English, French, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Italian, among other languages. In 2014, \"Montmartre Last Letters\" was included in the \"New York Review of Books\" \"Rediscovered Classics\" list. Qiu Miaojin is the second Chinese-language author to be featured in this series, following Eileen Chang. Authors Luo Yijun and Lai Xiangyin have dedicated their novels, \"Sending Away Sadness,\" and \"Afterwards,\" respectively, to Qiu Miaojin's memory and tribute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085138776303,"sku":"9787547739570","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1U1HD5cw5WuPFQ5GEykAXOC7nRr53rQfM.jpg?v=1734602793"},{"product_id":"房思琪的初恋乐园-9787559614636","title":"Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/27614904\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/5CGshKXr2IRnVoQQ62fdOz\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A heartbreaking yet helpless true story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is the Chinese novel of the year that touched millions of readers with its literary masterpiece of living in the face of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It is highly recommended by many scholars, writers and social celebrities including Li Yinhe, Dai Jinhua, Luo Yijun, Zhang Yueran, Feng Tang, Zhan Hongzhi, Jiang Fangzhuo and Shi Hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Painful experiences are so difficult to share, fortunately there is literature in this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I went downstairs to get my composition for Teacher Li to review. He took it out, and I was forced to scribble it on the wall. The teacher said nine words: \"If you can't do it, maybe your mouth can.\" I said five words: \"No, I can't.\" He then stuffed it in. It felt like drowning. After I could speak again, I said to the teacher, \"I'm sorry.\" I felt like I had failed at my homework.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Little Fang Siqi lived in a life of luxury, her face as beautiful as she could imagine her future to be. Li Guohua, a renowned cram school Chinese teacher, was her neighbor in the same upscale residential building. Little Fang Siqi, a literary admirer, also admired the well-read Teacher Li.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne day, Teacher Li said, \"You're so good at this. Why don't you just hand me an essay every week? I won't charge you a weekly fee.\" Siqi obediently went downstairs. The teacher was waiting for her at home, but there was no paper or pen on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Siqi's first love was Teacher Li. Because Teacher Li turned her over and stuffed his thing inside. That Teacher's Day, Siqi was only thirteen years old, and the world was different from what she knew. If this was love, why did it feel violent? Why did it feel broken? Why did the teacher keep replacing one female student after another? If this wasn't love, how could the learned Teacher Li do this and still be so confident, unquestioning, and guilt-free?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The story must be told anew. Liu Yiting, Fang Siqi's twin sister, receives a call from the police to bring Fang Siqi back home, having lost her mind and been declared insane. Through Siqi's diary, Yiting learns what Siqi has seen and thought over the past five years...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXu Yiwen, who married into the Qian family, is a close friend of the two girls, a woman in her twenties who is both their literary mentor and a silent victim of her husband's domestic violence... After entering university, Guo Xiaoqi still loves his former high school tutor, Li Guohua. 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Through his heartfelt pen, these people and events come alive before our very eyes, mingling with laughter and tears, becoming an irreplaceable microcosm of this era, etched in our hearts...\u003cbr\u003e This special collection includes Wu Nien-chen's only recent novel, \"Suicide Note,\" a heartfelt confession of his brother's passing. Writer Lei Xiang was specially invited to create illustrations. Watch as these two masters create a brilliant spark through their images and text. Some of life's twists and turns, once filled with resentment, later seem to become a source of energy and nourishment... After the sifting of time, these people and those events are almost reduced to laughter, tears, touching moments, and warmth. — \"These People, Those Things\"","brand":"译林出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085138841839,"sku":"9787544717731","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1dYJNcJszVoser7N54lfoJLdFqMtYKa5f.jpg?v=1738966167"},{"product_id":"大唐李白-少年游-9787549549733","title":"Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty: A Young Wanderer","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/25802944\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/7c0EghL9cDdCCy876gAj9S\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A poet whose body is a star and whose voice is a fairy voice, but only his name remains; an era that claims to be prosperous but destroys poetry with vanity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Li Bai changed Tang poetry, but missed the era; and how could the entire Tang Dynasty miss him?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is a masterpiece by Zhang Dachun that combines history, biography, fiction, and poetry. It was selected as one of the top ten books by Taiwan's China Times in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Tang Dynasty was a time of great prosperity, both civil and military, embracing the world with unparalleled confidence and passion. Poetry, once the most free form of poetry, was imbued with the rules of meter and became a means to change destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy did the ethereal Li Bai, with his aspirations to \"apply the teachings of Guan Yu and Yan Zhenqing, and devise the strategies of imperial rule,\" fail to qualify for the imperial examinations, even concealing his origins and wandering the world, destined to miss out on the prosperity of the world? Unable to conform to the rhythms of his time, his verses were arbitrary, so how could he have composed unrivaled verses that reached the ears of the gods, achieving the supreme glory of \"Gao Lishi removing his boots, Yang Guifei pouring wine\"? Even after achieving worldwide fame, why did he still lose sight of his original self, so that, millennia later, people still mostly remember only his name?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Behind the prosperity of the world, beneath the fame, often overlooked is the burden of freedom. The immortals that later generations admire, envy, and strive to reach are merely those excluded from the mundane world. As real life unfolds, the immortal realms of poetry gradually fade away, shaped by the various assumptions and restrictions of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Li Bai changed Tang poetry, but missed the era; and how could the entire Tang Dynasty miss him?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \"Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty\" series is a culmination of author Zhang Dachun's mastery of modern fiction and classical cultural heritage. Across millions of words, it recreates the life of the immortal poet Li Bai and the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty. The first installment, \"Youthful Travel,\" traces Li Bai's early travels, unravelling the mysteries of his origins and mentorship, and depicting the vibrant world of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. The author weaves between fiction and history, not only using poetry to infer the inner and outer worlds of contemporary literati, but even boldly ghostwriting Li Bai, supplementing and rewriting his poems. The narrative is both elusive and captivating, a captivating and captivating interplay of rationality and intellectuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I think the reason why a novel like \"Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty\" is fascinating is not only because it uses a lot of \"unconventional, wild, and unreliable history\" to weave the stories around the legendary figure Li Bai, but also because it uses vague materials such as poetry to reversely infer the creative situation at that time, and tries to make that situation (of the times, society, and individuals) come alive again. This is undoubtedly a great challenge and satisfaction for a novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTherefore, this book can be said to be a textual research, a poetic theory, a documentary, and of course a novel of a new form that is extremely challenging for readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e —Wu Mingyi (novelist and professor at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"The great road is as vast as the blue sky, yet I alone cannot escape.\" The grandeur of the prosperous age reflects the poet's dilemma. Laughing up to the heavens, only to become a weed, Li Bai's sorrow is no less than Du Fu's. Rather than describing the grandeur of the prosperous age, it's better to describe its embarrassment, and Zhang Dachun captures this embarrassment with unwavering vigour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Liao Weitang (Hong Kong writer and poet)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085138874607,"sku":"9787549549733","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1ly-4pDoRFN3nyhOtaoarzDbkjH81zm7Z.jpg?v=1734602801"},{"product_id":"巨流河-9787108035561","title":"Giant River","description":"The Juliu River was called the Juliu River in the Qing Dynasty; the Yakouhai is located at the southern tip of Taiwan, and is a bay stream under the Eluanbi Lighthouse. This book is about an era that is not far away, about the story of two generations from the Juliu River to the Yakouhai. The father who was determined to build China into a modern country, the mother who cried in the pasture, the selfless teacher; the Northeast exiled students who sang \"On the Songhua River\", the Nankai girl who first tasted literature, and Zhu Guangqian who recited Shelley and Keats with tears in his eyes; the hometown where the iron stone peony bloomed, the surging Juliu River, and the young Zhang Dafei who looked back at the pass in the twilight mountain breeze... For sixty years, the author has read, taught, and written commentaries, but he has always remembered the past - Guo Songling's military advice to resist the warlords in his hometown in the Northeast to strengthen national strength; the heroic sacrifice of the 29th Army in defending North China with blood at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War; The Nanjing Massacre, the sorrow of the capital city turned into a den of ghosts; the defense of Wuhan, the awakening of the people, the passion of the Chinese people who vowed never to surrender; the motivation to recapture Taierzhuang; the step-by-step climb and trek along the Hunan-Guangxi Road and the Sichuan-Guizhou Road to Chongqing, the hope of survival; the faces of the brave soldiers who swore to defend the country to the death in Sichuan and on the Burma Road, their resolute faces as if they were right before our eyes; those war reports, proclamations, and special editions that called out to compatriots and rallied the people, the ink is still wet in the author's mind... The author tells us about an era buried with great sadness, but also an era that is the most courageous China that all Chinese are proud of, a China that has ever existed!","brand":"生活·读书·新知三联书店","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085138907375,"sku":"9787108035561","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1C4NDdxbtv3T8g3fJNhG2GmRLY8LESOJ_ae7dfb44-ceeb-4675-ac9b-bd86a99566dd.jpg?v=1738963662"},{"product_id":"哀悼乳房-9787563393527","title":"Mourning Breasts","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/4218689\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/7WuyDCzGqIE6t12bQ6Byjl\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A woman who is no braver than anyone else, rebuilds her confidence and survives breast cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This is a remarkable book meticulously crafted with literary techniques about breast cancer and its medical and self-help approaches. The narrator, embodying a patient's own experience, breaks taboos and analyzes the reality of her own breast cancer diagnosis, describing her treatment journey, her post-cancer reflections, and the care and support of her friends. Living under the spell of cancer, the book experiences a life that feels both real and surreal. Facing it, overcoming it, and feeling reluctant to leave this world, the book laments the remarkable progress of humanity over the years, yet our vitality is noticeably declining. The concept of \"mourning\" implies a hope for rebirth, a sense that the past cannot be remonstrated with, but the future can be pursued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Taipei China Times Top Ten Books 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Taipei United Daily News Readers' Best Book Award 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Adapted into the film \"The Perfect Match\" starring Richie Jen and Miriam Yeung in 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The mainland has published the works of Xixi, the winner of the World Chinese Literature Award, on a large scale for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended readings by Wang Anyi, Yu Hua, Chen Cun, Chen Zishan, Ai Xiaoming, Gong Pengcheng, Xu Zidong, Liang Wendao, Zheng Shusen, and Wang Dewei\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085138940143,"sku":"9787563393527","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1NYYVxbz0lJP1F_1CMlLFyIghb8UZUtbF.jpg?v=1734602806"},{"product_id":"寺内-9787020135394","title":"Temple","description":"Fourteen novel and colorful short and medium-length novels fuse imagination and poetry, classicism and modernity. Some are new spins of stories, such as \"Inside the Temple\" and \"New Year's Eve\"; some depict the people and events of modern Hong Kong, such as \"Opposition,\" \"Chain,\" \"Quarrel,\" \"Mr. and Mrs. Hertz,\" \"Dragon Beard Candy and Hot Sugarcane,\" and \"Holy Water\"; and some explore the philosophy of life, such as \"Cockroach\"...\u003cbr\u003e This collection of classic novels, compiled in 1977, is full of creativity and excellence in every chapter. Its stylistic experiments in seeking novelty and difference demonstrate the cutting-edge and spirit of modern novels. It still amazes people today and makes them sigh after reading it: It turns out that novels can be written like this!\u003cbr\u003e 【Excerpts from the Golden Quotes】\u003cbr\u003e  An unfinished dream must be nurtured with love, the boldness of the feudal era, and the secrets of a young girl.\u003cbr\u003e Waiting for the flowers to bloom is painful.\u003cbr\u003e It’s not that the flowers aren’t charming, but the waiting is too unbearable.\u003cbr\u003e  Melancholy is planted in the soil of the dreamland, and melancholy is the seed of happiness.\u003cbr\u003e  Is the purpose of God creating life to prove death? \u003cbr\u003eLife is so fragile, as brittle as a piece of glass. In that instant, perhaps one thousandth of a second, one ten-thousandth of a second, or one hundred-thousandth of a second, in short, a very short moment, the boundary between life and death is clearly drawn.\u003cbr\u003e He thought of a line from T. S. Eliot. He couldn't recall the poem, but he remembered that Eliot had said in it: \"The world will not end with a bang, it will end with a sob.\"","brand":"人民文学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085138972911,"sku":"9787020135394","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1zGbchJ3b6qb5T4wTFdvILpby5BqmkLD6.jpg?v=1738966414"},{"product_id":"平原上的摩西-9787547737941","title":"Moses on the Plain","description":"\"Moses on the Plain\" is the magnum opus of novelist Shuang Xuetao, a collection of ten strikingly stylish short and medium-length stories, with the title work being the most classic. On Christmas Eve 1995 on Yanfen Street, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, and a heart born in one's hand... Those banished by fate, they are the downtrodden, slipping from the gears of time, yet also the messengers, bearing the secrets of sin and punishment. Only mortal love and faith can part the waves of Yanfen Street and carve a path to redemption. Ten contemporary short story masterpieces, hidden beneath the surface of ice, wash away the dust, press down fate, and deliver souls to a rarely visited temple.\u003cbr\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003e★ Novelist Shuang Xuetao's masterpiece, \"Moses on the Plain,\" returns in a new edition—an internationally acclaimed Chinese classic and a popular IP for film and television adaptations by the original author of the film \"Assassination of Novelist,\" with copyrights exported to multiple languages ​​including English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. Novelist Shuang Xuetao has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Chinese Film Novel Award, the One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award for \"Young Writer of the Year,\" and the third Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award. Many of his works are being adapted into film and television. Loved by Yi Yangqianxi, Lei Jiayin, and Dong Zijian, it received a lengthy review from Harvard University professor David Wang, and was highly recommended by writers Zhang Yueran and Li Jingrui, who stated, \"This is a work that our generation can truly leave behind.\" \u003cbr\u003e★ Only love and faith can pave the way to redemption. The 2021 film of the same name, starring Zhou Dongyu and Liu Haoran, will be released, portraying the \"Light of Moses\" of ordinary people - a brain-burning original work suitable for script-killing, a difficult-to-solve suspense novel puzzle: Christmas Eve on Yanfen Street in 1995, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, a missed appointment, a heart born in the hand... A fireball fell from the sky, and the innocent promise of the two teenagers triggered an unpredictable series of storms, and the fate of everyone changed abruptly. \"As long as the thoughts in your heart are true, as long as the thoughts in your heart are sincere, the mountains and the sea will make way for you.\" This energetic novel written with a sense of life is icy, romantic and innocent. Diao Yinan, director of \"Black Coal, Thin Ice\", is the producer of this blockbuster new drama, iQiyi's annual blockbuster series of the same name. \u003cbr\u003eShuang Xuetao's Yanfen Street, ten contemporary short story masterpieces hidden beneath the ice—a chilly fin-de-siècle northern landscape, depicting people lost from the gears of time: the factory scoundrel Old Ma, a father playing chess in his school uniform, my friend Andrei, the lame man on the train, the wandering poet Lao Xiao, a monk returning from prison, a girl missing in Leningrad... Yanfen Street's maze of stories depicts the struggle between good and evil, and those banished by fate, burdened with the secrets of sin and punishment, journey to report the truth. Through layers of violence and absurdity, Shuang Xuetao, with rare passion and deep emotion, salvages justice and honor for a lost world, carving a path of faith and love deep within time.\u003cbr\u003e ★ The brand new collector's edition, long awaited, Moses returns, designed by the famous book cover designer Lu Zhichang - simple and elegant, classic texture, the blue mud-colored wild pottery paper imported from Japan presents the touch of earth dust, the hot stamping process is elegant and timeless, perfectly interpreting the \"Light of Moses\", with blood on the tip of the pen and warmth in the cold.","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139005679,"sku":"9787547737941","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1XwtY1wE9rBQqp340mzL2AbT2Un7XXN7M.jpg?v=1734602811"},{"product_id":"飞行家-9787549599349","title":"Aviator","description":"1. The most anticipated original Chinese novel of 2017—here you'll find the ingenious concepts of Haruki Murakami, the humorous tone of Wang Xiaobo, and the northern stories of Shuang Xuetao. Using sharp language to paint rich images, each story is uniquely structured, and his playful and humorous tone confronts heaviness and pain. Shuang Xuetao's works bear the shadows of Murakami, Wang Xiaobo, and many modern Western novels. Furthermore, \"The Aviator\" weaves realism with legend, fairy tale, and allegory, vividly depicting the hardships of survival, the plight of humanity, and the perils of fate. The complex tensions between history and humanity are woven into the fabric of the story. \u003cbr\u003e2. Leaving a fictional record for those who have been insulted and harmed, for precious moments in humanity—tenderness amidst the bitter cold, light amidst darkness, hope amidst despair, and nobility amidst the humble. \"The Aviator\" resonates with Shuang Xuetao's signature themes: bloody violence, the decline of the North, and the insignificance of marginalized people. Here, there are failed novelists, unjustly murdered factory owners, daydreaming workers, down-and-out writers, and abandoned children, women, and husbands... But it also carries a message of love, dreams, morality, dignity, and the bright side of humanity, sparking tiny yet precious flames amidst the iron curtain of snow in the north. \"Leaving a fictional record for those who have been insulted and harmed in my hometown\"—this is the starting point. The author's romantic and magical writing style is rich with metaphors, symbols, and a reflection on reality. \u003cbr\u003e3. A young novelist with the greatest potential for mastery in contemporary China, Shuang Xuetao has created a \"new aesthetic principle\"—a man born for storytelling, a novelist of the purest kind. As a young writer \"raised under the influence of Western and avant-garde fiction,\" Shuang Xuetao has forged his own unique creative style and aesthetic principles. In the realm of storytelling, he refuses to be a mouthpiece for imported literary works, transcending his obsession with grand historical themes and the presentation of empty everyday scenes. He imbues ordinary life with meaning, allowing love, dreams, dignity, and freedom to be reborn in humble and desperate situations. His strikingly modern expression and the depth and intensity of his themes define his unique position in the contemporary Chinese novel world, demonstrating his undeniable masterful potential.\u003cbr\u003e \"The Aviator\" contains a total of nine short stories by Shuang Xuetao.\u003cbr\u003e Origin - leaving a fictitious record for those people from the hometown who were insulted and harmed;\u003cbr\u003e Sedimentation – weaving the complex tension between history and human nature into the texture of the story;\u003cbr\u003e Taking root - let love, dreams, dignity and freedom be reborn in humility and despair. \u003cbr\u003eThe stories mostly take place in declining northern cities: Yanfen Street, Shadow Lake, Guangming Hall, Red Flag Square, Chunfeng Dance Hall, Red Star Billiards Club... these places are filled with dilapidated streets, abandoned factories, and all kinds of people.\u003cbr\u003e Most of the characters in this story are from forgotten marginalized groups. Jiuzang, Xiaojuzi, the madman Liao Chenghu, the \"juvenile delinquent\" Liu Ding, Gu Niao'er, the trainer Ruan Ling, the \"crazy horse\" Ma Feng, the \"aviator\" Li Mingqi... They are fish washed ashore by the tide of history.\u003cbr\u003e In \"The Aviator\", it is such a group of people, in such places, that make the passion, dignity and freedom of ordinary people bloom into flames.","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139038447,"sku":"9787549599349","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/15iGgmQmy7HUtoOqzZd_kcHz39TsOAgsU_a714b462-f997-4eb1-ac8f-eb169a823df1.jpg?v=1734602813"},{"product_id":"聋哑时代-9787559826329","title":"Deaf and dumb era","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34969942\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/530D7PWoDsNKC4O6hnd0nU\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"When I graduated from elementary school, it was the summer of 1997. Like every graduation since then, it was hot and dry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e From that moment on, I was ready for all the pain and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a small northeastern city in the late 1990s, that summer, when everything outside was undergoing drastic change, was a long, hazy poem for teenagers aged thirteen or fourteen. The story centers on a group of junior high students at No. 108 Middle School. Told through the perspective of the young \"I\" (Li Mo), the novel recounts seven poignant coming-of-age stories. Like Naipaul's \"Miguel Street,\" these characters are independent yet intertwined, creating an intertextual connection that connects the \"I\"'s own trajectory. The eccentric Liu Yida, the gifted youth Huo Jialin, the eccentric and precociously charming Anna, and Ai Xiaonan, always in a white shirt... 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Unlike the sharp and cold style of \"Moses on the Plain,\" he uses a gentle tone, vibrant and sincere Chinese, and a loving and tender gaze to examine the dreams and scars of his youth, write a biography for those who have lived through the same experiences as himself, and tell the stories of those who lost their voices in the age of deaf and dumb. This novel was written at the age of 28, when he lived a double life: working at a bank during the day and writing at home at night. \"It was already summer when I finished it. I knew I could never write anything like this again. Maybe I had become a different person. From then on, I would live as a different person.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Editor's Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final chapter of the 80s generation's youth awakens the pain of growing up. We return time and again to our youth, where we preserve the essence of life. In the late 1990s, in a small northeastern city, on the dark-hued campus of No. 108 Middle School, lies the story of seven fierce young men, a gentle and precipitous memory of youth, and a spiritual coming-of-age story for those born in the 80s. No other summer can compare to that one: the young men were silent, fierce, and passionate, their faces bearing the same expressions we once wore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This book, dedicated to the voiceless in a deaf-mute era, is our eyes and our ears. It tells the story of the pain and price of growing up, of those who have departed, of elusive loves, of childhood friends, of how the brilliance of youth fades and fades, of the compromise with the banality of reality, of how one grows up alone in an absurd world, surrendering the things he holds most dear one by one. This is the youth of a generation, and of all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovelist Shuang Xuetao's self-healing work, now presented in its entirety in a new edition. This new edition restores the original, over a thousand words, preserving the novel's original form and presenting the work in its entirety for the first time. Unlike the harsh, hard-hitting \"Moses on the Plain,\" the novelist uses a gentle tone, vibrant and sincere Chinese, and a loving and tender gaze to examine the dreams and scars of youth, leaving behind a testament to the youth of his generation and telling the stories of those who remain silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★A pioneering work of youth writing in Chinese novels, Shuang Xuetao's story of youth has a Salinger-like spirit of rebellion and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Different from the familiar narratives of the post-80s youth, the novel uses a sharp pen to reveal the cruelty of the world behind the warmth of youth; it uses the eyes of a teenager to explore the light and dark of human nature, and writes about the eternal search for freedom and self between the individual and the world; it uses a vivid biography of Northeastern teenagers to interweave the youth and destiny of a generation under the shadow of the times, forming its own unique aesthetic style and historical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"广西师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139071215,"sku":"9787559826329","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1y89y4ig9GsO2JH1f5IsbE9sQYgMKmcD_1d0a4a09-35fd-4bd0-9c82-b02760c67e99.jpg?v=1734602816"},{"product_id":"白色绵羊里的黑色绵羊-9787532184439","title":"Black sheep among white sheep","description":"\"Black Sheep Among White Sheep\" is Shuang Xuetao's first collection of essays. The book is divided into three parts: Part I, \"Black Sheep Among White Sheep: On Novels,\" features nine essays written for writing enthusiasts, sharing his practical reading and writing experiences, from the novel's opening and atmosphere to character development, imagery and language, and endings and revisions. Part II, \"A Side Story of Life: On Film,\" explores successful film and television adaptations, detailing his understanding of the two artistic mediums of film and literature, and the relationship between novel texts and film and television adaptations. Part III, \"Distance from the Flame: A Collection of Essays,\" features a selection of essays, commentaries, and interviews related to writing published over the past decade since the author resigned from her job in 2012 to pursue freelance writing.\u003cbr\u003e This book is a heartfelt conversation between novelist Shuang Xuetao and readers. He shares how he embarked on the path of writing, the mistakes and detours, the losses and gains along the way; reflecting on his ten years of writing practice and experience, he extends an invitation and call to everyone who dreams of creating: \u003cbr\u003eA young person without traditional formal training but harboring a literary dream can, with a pen in hand, cleave through the thorns of life and gradually approach their literary ideal. In the face of a chaotic and uncertain reality, we can at least preserve the faint flame within ourselves through reading and writing.","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139103983,"sku":"9787532184439","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/18rTh89GNpbgNvCJWfEd9Uen0BfE9lqX.jpg?v=1734602819"},{"product_id":"冬泳-9787532183661","title":"winter swimming","description":"Seven northern stories, seven wintering spirits: preserving human dignity in the extreme cold. \"Winter Swimming\" is the debut novel and representative work of young writer Ban Yu. \"Winter Swimming\" collects seven of Ban Yu's stories. Along the edges of railroad tracks, fortifications, and heavy snow, wander figures of the past: printing factory workers, crane operators, unfamiliar gamblers, and the unemployed... Their lives are passive, facing threats and embarrassment, accustomed to silence, like a peak or a breeze, a distant and isolated existence.\u003cbr\u003e The north is bitterly cold, yet within these individuals lies a hidden warmth and light. Some \"leap into the air, emerging from the cleaving wind,\" while others \"kneel on the ground, letting out thunderous cries.\" The warmth and light of these individuals will eventually pierce the ice, illuminate the darkness, and carve a warm memory for the north of today.","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139136751,"sku":"9787532183661","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/12W4FZmqIQpwm0u0oszB2yPMaHwe3AEVi.jpg?v=1734602821"},{"product_id":"逍遥游-9787531357759","title":"Happy Journey","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/34940823\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/1ZVoX1DUgQrJaJLKFkaMTl\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★Ban Yu’s latest work after “Winter Swimming”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This collection of seven short and medium-length stories, each distinct and deeply exploratory, presents a broader literary landscape: a dry, cold wind, the earth and dust in the air, fleeting light, gushing springs, a raging underground fire, nonexistent texts, the drowned, the lost... Characters and stories intertwine, dreams and metaphors unfold endlessly, and everything becomes blurred, like a landscape shrouded in mist. Like a survivor of the Dark Ages, Ban Yu steals fire, explores original sin, and navigates through the chaos and unspeakable predicaments of life, igniting them all to create wondrous moments of oracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★All incarnations and reflections are your and my names.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA down-and-out novelist, a man raising ants, a sick girl, a lover chasing a comet, a father lost in time... These adventurers of fate and life dwell in thunder, wade into the clouds, and walk by candlelight at night, illuminating the mountains, sea, and wind. The novel of the same name, \"Xiao Yao You,\" topped the short story rankings of the \"Harvest\" literature magazine and received a lengthy praise from writer Li Tuo: \"He presents before us a deeply ambiguous, pristine life. 'Xiao Yao You' reminds me of Yasujiro Ozu.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★Give support to the weak and continue the dreams of the humble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In the midst of this vast cold, how can we maintain our dignity? After life's knockdown, what can still ignite the faint flame within us? They are small, fragile, almost inaudible, yet also upright, resilient, and omnipresent. The marks of those arduous struggles during these great times, those unbreakable vows, those magical moments that leave us lost in a trance. \"Xiao Yao You\" captures the human yearning for freedom in this mundane world, the true nature of our lives slowly emerging after the glories have faded.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★ Create an \"escape space\" in the chaotic daily life and present the unspeakable reality in a magical way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The North is not the past, but the future. These seven novels, like time crystals, reflect a rich tapestry of facets, imbued with avant-garde meaning and experimental spirit. They reach reality through fiction, maintaining a delicate balance between the two. Amid the roar of life, we escape on the train of his novels to another time and space, where there are distant evening stars, the lush green of failure, as well as bright tenderness and loneliness. We journey through mountains and forests, embrace the seasons, and pass by rivers. If we look up, we can see the stars following us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e -------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Xiao Yao You,\" Ban Yu's second collection of novels following \"Winter Swimming,\" features seven short and medium-length stories of distinct styles, spanning a thirty-year timeline, presenting a broader and richer picture. A down-and-out novelist, a man raising ants, a sick girl, a lover chasing a comet, a father lost in time... They are trapped in a thick fog, caught in the waning light, yet always trying to clumsily dance. These stories are imbued with the pain and scars of social change, depicting our true cowardice, longing, distress, and struggle between brilliance and darkness, hope and despair. A drowning person seeks to reach shore for air, a lost person awaits a clear night. The darkness of night is not always bottomless, for if we choose to look up, we can see the stars following us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBan Yu's masterful narrative penetrates the fabric of everyday life, creating tranquil moments of soaring amidst chaos, creating a refreshing narrative tone: a narrative that mirrors the harsh, cold, and poetic nature of northern China. All the mundane and painful becomes crystal clear, vast and profound in his writing. We too, hear the sobs hidden by history and daily life, and pause for a moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"春风文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139202287,"sku":"9787531357759","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/14V5OjiwhAhCCCHzzPkyDbwmrX44NEhXv_f4f490c0-7448-431f-bd61-75793e0c617d.jpg?v=1734602824"},{"product_id":"缓步-9787532183654","title":"Slow Walk","description":"\"Slow Walk\" compiles nine novels written by Ban Yu in recent years. The author and his characters stand together, journeying together as companions, through weakness, loneliness, fear, and hardship, yet never stopping. Sharing a vision of rebuilding their lives, they slowly advance across the fields and mountains of life, \"believing that it's not too late, that there will be another summer.\" \u003cbr\u003eThe ever-rising underground ice rink, the swimming white unicorn, the visitor who passes through the night and storm, the father who raises his daughter alone, the future poet of the 1980s... These novels thoroughly respond to today's reality with different narrative methods, writing about everyone's entanglement, confusion and pain, and trying to give them the imagination of conquest and transcendence - using the finite to fight the infinite, interpreting existence with action, awakening the eternal silence with inexhaustible noise, and crossing the unknown with firm belief, \"there is no beginning, no end, only an endless middle, and the only way is to move forward.\"","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139235055,"sku":"9787532183654","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/11blGAdhbisXZLUYo-GGOhreUlJ6sNhbY.jpg?v=1734602826"},{"product_id":"仙症-9787547738207","title":"Immortal Syndrome","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mental patient who imagines himself having served in a submarine, a lonely bird scarer at Shenyang Airport, a poor man's paradise, alcoholism, night, a traveler's wanderings, a boy's long farewell to his father... In the northern cities at the turn of the century, the characters are always lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is Zheng Zhi's new work after winning the first prize of the 2018 \"Koi Anonymous Writer Program\" and the first \"Zhongshan Star\" Annual Youth Excellent Work Award in 2019 for his short story \"Xianzheng\". It includes \"Xianzheng\", which Su Tong praised for \"contributing a new character image\", \"Monte Carlo Cannibalism\", published in the 2019 \"Youth Writers Fiction Album\" of \"Shouhuo\", and six other short stories, including the new novella \"Forest in the Forest\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mixture of magical stories and detective novel elements, strong regional colors, and special forms of daily life are told with the conciseness of spoken language and a humorous tone, narrating a boy's escape from and return to his own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"北京日报出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139267823,"sku":"9787547738207","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1McYeEUzCrRPP0hMuSVe1fBsOxPrqbsCw.jpg?v=1734602829"},{"product_id":"生吞-9787533950057","title":"Eat raw","description":"A phenomenal suspense masterpiece, a dark horse on the suspense literature charts of the year; recommended by Zhang Yibai, Shi Hang, Na Duo, and Guan Xiaotong! Multiple out-of-stock titles, now in a major reprint!\u003cbr\u003e After several years, Zheng Zhi returns to his full-length novel. Conceived over two and a half years ago, this novel is set against the backdrop of a major real-life crime, with chilling details and a deep exploration of the human power behind the story, bringing many to tears. \u003cbr\u003eThis novel transcends genre and pure literature, propelling the mystery novel to new heights. Its multi-pronged story unfolds with a masterful and captivating narrative. Its vivid and concise prose explores human nature, perceives the times, and probes the depths of every soul.\u003cbr\u003e A TV series of the same name is in production. Directed by Zhang Xiaobo and written by Zheng Zhi, this brutal youth thriller, suspenseful mystery, has won countless readers a love affair with it.\u003cbr\u003e Life and the world are generally like this: up close, nothing is spectacular. \/Only children mistake \"future\" and \"beautiful\" for the same thing. \/Breaking up is a normal part of life, and we are no exception. ... Countless golden quotes went viral.\u003cbr\u003e • • • • • • • • • • • • \u003cbr\u003eIn the winter of 2003, seventeen-year-old Huang Shu was brutally raped and murdered, her naked body dumped in a snow pit outside an unfinished building. Heavy snow covered the body, obscuring crucial clues and leaving the murderer's method and motive a mystery. Ten years later, another young woman's body was stripped and dumped in a snow pit. The method was replicated, but the former key suspect had long since passed away. Veteran detective Feng Guojin, the man who had been investigating the case, was once again mired in mystery. With the rediscovery of an old case, a brutal story of youth, buried deep within the lives of five young men and women, surfaces...\u003cbr\u003e • • • • • • • • • • • •\u003cbr\u003e Reader's comment: A true work of literature. Putting aside the ingenious story structure, superb narrative techniques, the fluid shifts in character perspective, the depth of human nature, and the concise and dryly humorous language of the Northern style, the author's ambition and meticulous attention to detail are truly terrifying. Not a single word is superfluous; everything is a gentle trap carefully dug by the author, and by the time you fall into it, it's too late. —Reader jumper \u003cbr\u003eA friend asked me what kind of novel this was. I told him that I bookmarked it after reading the first chapter, and halfway through I was hoping to buy the physical copy. — Reader Yu Xiaochen shuddered in the 31-degree Celsius weather. Zheng Zhi managed to use his words to touch people's hearts. — Reader Guang","brand":"浙江文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139431663,"sku":"9787533950057","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1a4WN2Xdzm0_Hb06YjjZfO-xJ-rufSMai.jpg?v=1738966365"},{"product_id":"冷水坑-9787500175827","title":"Lengshuikeng","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/36624404\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/05WbKaq1C1SgReJrxuGasw\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Cold Water Pit\" is Kinte's first published collection of novels, which includes four novels he wrote since 2015: \"Cold Water Pit\", \"Winter People: Selected Chapters\", \"Snowstorm\" and \"Crime and Love\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Cold Water Pit\": The Lengshuikeng mining area is declining. Hearing that government compensation funds have been siphoned off, Duan Tiema, the son of a miner, rides out late at night to intercept them. Along the way, he traverses mountains, forests, and rivers, encountering people and confronting ghosts. The memories of Lengshuikeng's past and the resentment of the present entangle the living and the dead, while its future lies beyond the vast, cold winds of the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Winter Citizens: Prologue\" is excerpted from Gint's unfinished novel, \"Winter Citizens\": He is a \"superfluous man\" in Dongzhou, a \"spirited young man,\" and a drunkard. Unable to comply with his father's arrangement to enter the system, he neither resists nor cooperates, indulging in a mystical self-destruction. One day, he encounters a laid-off worker and taxi driver. In the heat of alcohol, he unwittingly becomes embroiled in the taxi driver's spiritual dilemma and life tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Snowstorm\" tells the story of a woman searching for her husband in a snowstorm and encountering various characters. The snowstorm tears down the barriers between people and then solidifies them again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Crime and Love\" depicts a day in the life of a married couple. The husband, a young section chief at the Municipal Planning Bureau, is a contemplative man who hopes to master the proper use of power and establish a healthy labor order through his intellectual labor. However, he feels out of place at his workplace, earning the nickname \"the Don Quixote of the bureaucracy.\" Despite his pretentious demeanor, he is ultimately manipulated by the system. The wife, an assistant lawyer, takes on a case involving a suspected novelist. As she delve deeper into the case, she gains a new understanding of herself, her relationship with her husband, and her relationship with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Although the four novels are independent of each other, they are secretly connected by a thread. Although the miners' lamps in the cold water pit have been extinguished, the underground fire still surges and rushes beneath the land of Dongzhou, erupting through the distorted souls and transforming into endless wild words and delirium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"中译出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139497199,"sku":"9787500175827","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1Swy-ujNQwr8wD9otl5a9arLhWws72xmq.jpg?v=1734602834"},{"product_id":"夜晚的潜水艇-9787542669964","title":"Submarine at night","description":"★ \"Asia Weekly\" Top Ten Novels of 2020★ Douban Reading 2020 Chinese Literature (Novel) Top 1 \u003cbr\u003e★ First Prize Winner of the 2021 Blancpain Ideal Country Literary Award★ 2020 One Way Street Bookstore Literary Award Annual Work★ First Prize Winner of the First PageOne Literary Award It's like birds perching on trees and fish diving into the deep sea, everything is safe and peaceful, and the night has truly fallen.\u003cbr\u003e \"Submarine at Night\" is Chen Chuncheng's debut collection of novels. Nine stories, traversing ancient mountains and rivers and the unknown universe, traverse secret passages between reality and fantasy with magnificent, ethereal imagination and a gentle, tranquil writing style: a young man wandering the seabed, an ancient monument lost in the mountains, words permeating everything, a cloud-trimming station, swordsmithing and winemaking, a saxophone beneath the Iron Curtain, a concert hall within a blue whale... These stories are about hiding and seeking, pursuit and escape, a touch of certainty amidst the uncertainty, a small ray of coolness between the scorching sun and the abyss. Chen Chuncheng's fictional world is a cave to hide in, a palace suspended on paper, a submarine sailing into the past.\u003cbr\u003e 【Recommendation】 \u003cbr\u003eI really enjoyed \"Submarine at Night.\" Chen Chuncheng was a pleasant surprise. In the NBA, they describe promising young players as \"the sky's the limit,\" and that applies to Chen Chuncheng as well. His strength lies in his ability to be both elegant and grounded, with a rich imagination and a solid grasp of reality. His transitions and connections are exceptional, creating a sophisticated work. I think he's a writer with a promising future.\u003cbr\u003e ——Yu Hua (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Reading Chen Chuncheng's novels, one senses the author's meticulous thought process, which is why his stories flow so smoothly and are so engaging. His language is refined to perfection, a true mastery beyond compare. He is destined to be a remarkable novelist.\u003cbr\u003e ——A Yi (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Chen Chuncheng is a garden at dusk, every word worth scrutinizing, every word about to be missed. I believe the legend: \"I was given a colored pen in a dream, wishing to write on flowers and leaves to send to the morning clouds.\" There is an ancient order of writing circulating in the dark, and only when it appears can I point it out to you: Look, this is it.\u003cbr\u003e ——Jia Xingjia (writer) \u003cbr\u003eWhen I first read \"Chopping Clouds\" and \"Bamboo Peak Temple,\" I was struck by how brief yet captivating the author's writing, each chapter imbued with a sense of wonder and splendor. Only after completing the entire book did I realize that it was merely a glimpse of a rising eaves amidst a lush bamboo forest. These nine novels are like nine profound palaces, their doors ajar and serenely deserted. But as you step sideways and slowly inside, you'll soon be greeted by a dazzling array of unique layouts, ingenious components, and dazzling details. I'm grateful to the author for single-handedly constructing these wondrous and profound palaces, allowing us to glimpse the countless breathtaking and wondrous scenes within.\u003cbr\u003e ——Dongdong Gun (writer)\u003cbr\u003e Every piece of Chen Chuncheng's writing, even every page and paragraph, exudes a strange, ethereal quality, drawing us into a state of limbo. His meticulous prose conceals enduring emotions, stirring my memory and senses. After reading each piece, I'm left me mesmerized for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e ——Lu Qingyi (Director) \u003cbr\u003eChen Chuncheng's novels are stunning, with superb language and a holistic, critical, and yet carnivalesque imagination. Most remarkable of all, he manages to make even the most absurd narratives effortlessly believable, a rare feat. He has a poignant perspective on his own life, expressed with exquisite soaring grace.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Jing (critic)\u003cbr\u003e Chen Chuncheng stands out as a distinctive figure among the post-90s generation of writers. His depictions of the abandoned garden combine the classical homeland of Wang Zengqi with the modern labyrinth of Borges. But a thorough reading of his works reveals a far richer story. He transcends the self-contained stage, immediately taking the universe as his subject, transcending common sense and allowing his imagination to soar. Each novel is distinct, yet themes are constantly evolving. In an era dominated by crude pens, he defies the norm, retreating to a \"deep mountain telegraph station\" to study the myriad things, a study he both pursues and explores without ulterior motives. His brushwork is sophisticated, his words composed, his imagination unrestrained and vibrant, punctuated by a playful edge. He embodies the image of a mischievous old man, both deeply absorbed in his studies and a playful spirit. \u003cbr\u003e——Gu Jian (Editor of Selected Chinese Literature)\u003cbr\u003e \"Submarine at Night\" takes a unique approach, combining knowledge and life, sensibility and rationality, imagination and accuracy, with a penetrating and lingering quality and a strong sense of fantasy. With elegant and captivating language, the novel presents a new path for contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e ——Award Speech for the 4th Blancpain Utopia Literary Award","brand":"上海三联书店","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139529967,"sku":"9787542669964","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/176QtPePn3bmB9jbwm_FQWydK2ZrIb9z7_90fccb9f-ade1-40a3-aa49-dd764489193c.jpg?v=1738963995"},{"product_id":"寂静连绵的山脉-9787532183425","title":"Silent mountains","description":"Peng Jianbin's latest collection of novels.\u003cbr\u003e It describes the humble characters encountered in the wandering career of a salesman: their strong difficulties, confused struggles, meaningless yearnings, silent frustrations and endurance, and the young, confused love.\u003cbr\u003e A heartwarming and heart-breaking \"history of spiritual breakthrough\" about a tiny individual.\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eThe eight short and medium-length novels collected in this book were mostly written by Peng Jianbin in the past two years. These stories primarily revolve around his career as a salesman from his early twenties to his thirties, with literature (reading and writing) and love as secondary themes. They depict the struggles and aspirations of young people entering society amidst adversity, their futile struggles in a foreign land both physical and spiritual, and their ultimate choice to endure in silence. In the author's writing, the hometown that holds childhood memories decays, while relatives, trapped in their fate, continue to wander in silence, toiling in despair. And then there are those insignificant lives struggling to make a living, their \"souls weary, their futures bleak, yet their faces perpetually wear animalistic smiles\"... \u003cbr\u003eWith a brutal sincerity and cool, detached language, the author salvages those ordinary yet precious lives from the emptiness of reality, endowing them with dignity within the world of literature. These works can also be seen as the author's spiritual autobiography, a heartwarming and heartbreaking \"history of spiritual breakthrough\" about the tiny individual that has survived in the cracks of the grand narratives of our time.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's novels possess a contradictory duality: on the one hand, they resolutely confront the realities of life, while on the other, they are fleeting and ethereal, like scattered feathers on the night breeze or a solitary stone rolling down a hillside. Through the sharp contrast between the real and the imaginary, the author embodies a Kafkaesque stubbornness, loneliness, and emptiness, as well as a needle-sharp exploration and questioning of life.\u003cbr\u003e ——Award Speech for the 17th Dianchi Literature Award\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eI have read Peng Jianbin's works that seem more bizarre, more outrageous and more talented, but the one that impressed me the most is still the article \"Crystal\" in the book. It is for those who are looking for crystals in loneliness and hardship, and for those Salinger-style, crystal-like teenagers who do not want chaos.\u003cbr\u003e ——Li Jingrui\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e \"Hope You're Healthy and Not Afraid\" is such a wonderful piece! Only when two people meet would they take such painstaking effort to write a letter, a match made in heaven and yet come and go so effortlessly. In the age of WeChat, there will no longer be love letters like this.\u003cbr\u003e —— Zeng Jiahui\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin is the kind of author who, no matter what he writes, feels like writing his own spiritual autobiography. His self is not reflected in the content, but is very vividly reflected in the language, form and style.\u003cbr\u003e ——Hu Anyan\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e I feel like no one has written about the lives of our generation so realistically. Many of Peng Jianbin's novels are works of art, transcending the typical autobiography. Perhaps his work can be understood as a satire and love of life itself, regardless of era or state.\u003cbr\u003e ——He Pan","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085139759343,"sku":"9787532183425","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1ZmgOwUNuoX1V38iAHXs17XtU_Oo4xavt.jpg?v=1734602839"},{"product_id":"我去钱德勒威尔参加舞会-9787532178100","title":"I went to a dance at Chandlerville","description":"Peng Jianbin's representative novel is the most moving chapter in contemporary Chinese literature\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Fourteen novels, close to the dust of life, touching the warmth of the skin, recalling the most subtle history, personal history, history of action, history of encounters, and history of separation, silence and those past events that accidentally broke the silence.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e With dreamlike narrative techniques, and a patience and calmness beyond survival, he writes about the subtle feelings in life, the momentary uneasiness, the sudden trance, and the eternal hum...\u003cbr\u003e The wandering stranger finally reduced his physical and mental burden to silence.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e This is a dreamlike victory for the Southern Chinese language of my dreams. The plot arrangements, the details I choose to expand upon, and the things I discard in these novels are all determined by language. Whether those fictional events might or might not have occurred in real life has never been a basis for whether I should or shouldn't write them that way. Language alone determines whether or not I should write. When I write novels, I'm essentially imagining a people who speak the language of literature and dreaming of them living a life of unparalleled linguistic superiority. (Peng Jianbin) \u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's novels are told in a unique style, making familiar things seem appealing. His writing is simple and intelligent, and his suspense is natural without being sensational. - Zhang Ming (Director)\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e In the world of literature, he seems intent on (or perhaps infatuated with) dissolving \"meaning,\" attempting to draw external, objective objects into the vortex of his mind, dissolving and digesting them, transforming them into a nonexistent yet unquestionable, eternal hum. Of course, this process is silent, a silent labor. I trust and envy this labor because the nothingness it presents is so pure. It can be said that nothingness manifests itself in Peng Jianbin's sentences, becoming one with them. —Jin Te [Novelist]\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003ePeng Jianbin's works, whether fiction or nonfiction, always seem to conceal a portrait of a sensitive, self-deprecating, and unyielding young writer. Similar portraits can be found in texts like Joyce or Camus, but Peng Jianbin's works are woven in Chinese, a Chinese that is unfashionable, pure, introspective, and noble. For this reason alone, his works are the finest of contemporary Chinese writing, and must be read and collected. —Wang Bang, Writer\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e In recent years, Peng Jianbin has been my favorite Chinese writer. Sometimes I can't bear to read his books, because I think even a manual he wrote would be very moving. —Xie Ding [writer]","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139824879,"sku":"9787532178100","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1NnFsBFRlSb9r1zKSGWuzmxvoUmtAfvNR.jpg?v=1734602841"},{"product_id":"不检点与倍缠绵书-9787532178094","title":"The Book of Improper and Double Affection","description":"Peng Jianbin's early work, which he abandoned but then picked up again, unexpectedly became a vintage wine that has been stored for more than ten years.\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e A book about living and writing in a foreign country——\u003cbr\u003e How does a young literary man run a business? How does a salesperson devote himself to writing?\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e An endless journey from reality to dream——\u003cbr\u003e Starting from the county station with a foul smell, I wasted my time on the winding mountain road and ended up lost in the magical reality of Guizhou.\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003eThe nonfiction book \"The Book of Improper and Double Affection\" chronicles my work, life, and love affairs during my time in Guizhou (2004-2006), a period of business travel. In an effort to position myself as a \"normal person,\" I deliberately avoided discussing my writing when writing this book. The dozen or so stories included in this book, however, were mostly written during my \"Guizhou period,\" thus filling this gap. In short, this is a book about my life and writing in Guizhou during my three years there. Even considering a few stories not written in Guizhou during that period, I need only make a simple correction: This is a book about my wanderings and writing in a foreign land. (Peng Jianbin)\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e Peng Jianbin's writings about his time in Guizhou remind me of Shen Congwen's \"Journey to Hunan,\" full of sentimentality and compassion. The life he describes feels like real life, and even those gloomy people and days are filled with light. —Li Weichuang [Critic]\u003cbr\u003e * \u003cbr\u003ePeng Jianbin is a rare novelist who maintains a playful innocence in his writing. Like a teenager without playmates, he fiddles with the characters in his plays alone on the sofa. His reading horizons and life experiences define him as \"a writer who has seen the world and crossed the equator on a donkey.\" — Novelist\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e There's an omnipresent \"I\" in Peng Jianbin's novels, a \"I\" gazing, listening, chewing, translating and rewriting between truth and fiction... Like all masterpieces that touch me, when I read his books, the boundaries of genre, subject matter, and doctrines don't flash before my eyes. 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This departure from conventional literary narrative, this power of heterogeneity, this courage to indulge in one's own aberrations, is something worth cherishing. —Sun Ganlu Lin Zhao's novels are worth recommending to young readers of literature. Readers need not be perplexed by the fog of her linguistic carnival. \"Liuxi\" is written like a series of introspections by the author, inviting us into her inner jungle, presenting multiple layers of reality—written in captivating contemporary Chinese, even though the language repeatedly betrays us. —Mianmian This is a monologue fraught with doubt: it's hard to say whether the narrator is an ingenue, a madman, a con man, or all three. She was tangled between her dissolute lover, her broken mother and her violent father, building a questionable first half of her life with bubbles and dreams, and finally falling into an irreversible ending. \u003cbr\u003eThis debut work presents the texture of miniature painting, carrying the unique flavor, scenery and memories of subtropical Lingnan, telling the story of the wrong path and possible price of growing up, commemorating the weak who were arbitrarily broken and rotted on the ground, and the love and life they once had.","brand":"上海三联书店","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085139988719,"sku":"9787542669988","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1xLIozNPgfUfkXigNEDHk5lJRTkOpRiZO.jpg?v=1734602846"},{"product_id":"樱桃青衣-9787567565333","title":"Cherry Tsing Yi","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/27081783\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/3wKmejYSqSBX74biwO7vIV\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cherry green clothes mean listening to the time in your heart speaking, and banana leaves covering deer mean the essence of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It does produce happiness, and it is indeed a short dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ===============================================\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Cherry Green Clothes\" is the final work in the \"Family Experiment\" writing project by young Shanghai writer Zhang Yiwei. It includes \"Sleeping in Sorrow,\" which won first prize in the short story category of the 36th Times Literary Award. It explores modern people's pain and tolerance, loss and satisfaction, memory and forgetfulness. A young man and woman, each accompanying their parents on a blind date; an elderly man hospitalized to keep his family happy; two generations who develop a common thread through dull conversation; a family living a dignified life on a meager salary... Each story recounts the ethical lives and evolving destinies of contemporary urbanites, depicting the kindness of ordinary people protecting one another and the unforgettable righteousness of ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title, \"Cherry Green Dress,\" draws on the dreamlike motif of Tang Dynasty legends. Lu Zi, bewitched by fame and fortune, ultimately laments, \"The honor and disgrace, rise and fall, high and low in this world—all should be left to nature!\" But so-called nature also involves the unpleasant, day-to-day grind. \"Cherry Green Dress\" expresses the gap between dreams and reality, and also evokes the melancholy of the passage of time and the uncertainty of life and death. Alluding to the fact that even the \"common people\" can experience a \"feast,\" \"Cherry Green Dress\" captures the imagery of waking from a dream after experiencing prosperity, yet it also points to the truth of urban life, which neither allows for decline nor elevation. It also addresses the ordinary people, helplessly enslaved to the commercial world, the real estate stock market, and the dream of wealth, seeking to salvage a touch of genuine humanity from their endless selfishness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ====================================================\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Writing begins with confession, but confession exhausts itself. After the urge to confess is exhausted, a purer joy of creation quietly grows, and the time within begins to speak. It is a universe increasingly different from natural time. Every glance is a hidden card within the heart, looming and revealing. The past is like a flash of lightning, nothing counts, everything is shattered, yet it is captivating.\" (Zhang Yiwei)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"华东师范大学出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085140054255,"sku":"9787567565333","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1b_66esVVM1Pu3j9ZV-09DR8oraMas2_x.jpg?v=1734602849"},{"product_id":"空响炮-9787532165537","title":"Empty gun","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/30163040\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/6sNFDyltHa02bVSnxTpj49\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Empty Cannon\" is a story collection by Wang Zhanhei, a new writer born in the 1990s. It includes 8 short stories, describing the colorful little people on the street. 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His perspective is invaluable for a post-90s author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"上海文艺出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085140185327,"sku":"9787532165537","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1OoVO14RbBU4nzD_ijCqz2ErhFJ18C5tj.jpg?v=1734602852"},{"product_id":"如雪如山-9787020166930","title":"Like snow and mountains","description":"○ No woman is insignificant ○ Their secret joys and sorrows, loves and hates, are so different, yet they are all connected ○ Li Jingze, Liang Yongan, Zhang Li, Di An and many other famous writers sincerely recommend ○ Young and powerful writer Zhang Tianyi's new collection of female-themed novels\u003cbr\u003e ------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e In life, \"snow\" and \"mountains\" are both incredibly common and yet impossible to ignore. The daily grind of snow and the heartbreaking past of mountains permeate almost every woman's life. \"Like Snow, Like Mountains\" is a metaphor for women's survival stories, told from a female perspective. \u003cbr\u003eWith his sensitive and observant mind and delicate and sharp brushstrokes, author Zhang Tianyi sorts out the growth history of a woman named \"Lili\" through the life sections of seven female protagonists: she may be Lili, the quiet female student sitting opposite you on the Spring Festival train, or Lili, who is suffering from postpartum depression and passing by you in the hospital with a baby in her arms, or Lili, the elderly mother who has lost her only child and lives next door to you... Their burdens and struggles reach the reality of existence in a thorough and strong way.\u003cbr\u003e All women hold within them a piece of the same puzzle; their hidden joys and sorrows, loves and hates, are so different yet so interconnected. In this book, we may find the answers to how to live, how to love, how to face ourselves when we toss and turn at night, and how not to lose courage when the future arrives.\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------\u003cbr\u003e ☆ Famous experts recommend Tianyi because it has this ability, which is to make those dark and embarrassing things have a halo, even a charming halo. \u003cbr\u003eRenowned literary critic Li Jingze's novel, \"Like Snow, Like Mountain,\" captures the burdens and struggles of modern women with exquisite detail, setting, and atmosphere. The novel's penetrating and weighty prose unyieldingly reaches the realities of existence, while conveying a deeply felt spiritual dilemma shared by women, resonating deeply with readers.\u003cbr\u003e — Renowned scholar Liang Yongan: In the literary world, Zhang Tianyi is like a fish: free, unfettered, and unrestrained. There's nothing he can't challenge, nothing he can't write about. 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I knew that the story I wrote would be like a drop of water, eventually merging into the long river of human history.\"","brand":"北京联合出版公司","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085140250863,"sku":"9787559640666","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1W1fvpBA_2kuTpvwGVBG7c4EVxWfKlw3I.jpg?v=1734602857"},{"product_id":"豆子芝麻茶-9787218169507","title":"Bean Sesame Tea","description":"\"Bean Sesame Tea\" is the fourth book in Yang Benfen's \"Seeing Women\" series and a precious historical epic of the common people.\u003cbr\u003e The book is divided into two parts: \"Past Marriage\" and \"The Limit of Heartbreak\".\u003cbr\u003e After telling stories about mother (Autumn Garden), fellow villagers (Floating Wood), and marriage (I Am Fragrance), the author turns his attention to the marriage life of three elderly women: Old Lady Qin, Xiangjun, and Donglian. He meticulously tells the confusion and pain, choices and responsibilities, courage and persistence of a generation of women in intimate relationships, and how they never give up on self-salvation even when fate is unfair. \u003cbr\u003eIn addition, in the second part, the author recalls the past experiences with his mother and brother, and the heart-wrenching pain when the two closest relatives passed away. Those little things in the old people's hearts, as small as sesame seeds and beans, are as small, fragile, and fleeting as dewdrops, but at that moment they measure the limit of a person's sadness.","brand":"广东人民出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Paperback","offer_id":46085141004527,"sku":"9787218169507","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1G0fkN83BBRve4WWW95sfOn4T6325hUxW.jpg?v=1734602864"},{"product_id":"浮木-9787559652614","title":"Driftwood","description":"\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/book.douban.com\/subject\/35479662\/\"\u003eDouban\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neodb.social\/book\/6cxqJrxGQwhAeJbPcTvSjl\"\u003eNeoDB\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Floating Wood\" is the sequel to \"Autumn Garden.\" An octogenarian tells the story of herself, her mother, and their families, relatives, and fellow villagers in the heartland of central and southern China. 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It takes the image of the \"Ghost Mother\" in the legend of Daliang Mountain as the starting point, integrates the social changes in the 1930s, and makes an imaginative description of the life conditions in Daliang Mountain a hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e ◎He is Tieha, and also Feng Shihai; he is a Han Chinese from the border area, and also a slave who escaped after being trapped in the Yi area for fifteen years.\u003cbr\u003e How does he face his rootlessness in troubled times? Is it possible for a person, after being tossed aside by fate, to regain the meaning of life through the imagination of \"hope\"?\u003cbr\u003e ◎A story is not only a narration, but also the story of the narrator. If one day we lose literature, those unknown people in history, and their feelings and stories, will most likely return to permanent silence.\u003cbr\u003e The mute things from the past will not disappear. They begin mutely, then grow louder, merging into different voices until they shatter, but as time passes, those fragments will remain, entering the future. If the mute things of the past are polished by the power of humanity in desperate situations, they will not disappear.\u003cbr\u003e …\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: \u003cbr\u003eFor centuries, in the mountains of Simigahuo, in the high pastures and vast forests, in eagle-nest houses and beside fire pits, there have lived these black people who call themselves Nuosu. They call themselves \"people from the center of the earth.\"\u003cbr\u003e In the 1930s, in the Daliang Mountains, a slave named Tieha decided to escape. From Simigahuo to Shanlinggang, he witnessed the continuous decline of the mountains and the world. \"Guardian\" Enza gradually lost himself in the cycle of lucidity and delusion. 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The story \"Miss Boxman,\" included in her previous work, \"Asteroid Falls in the Afternoon,\" even unexpectedly predicts a world where social distancing and vaccinations become the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The new work \"Lost Man\" focuses on the stories of fifteen \"aliens\" who have lost their navigation, once again presenting the unusual daily life of our time: a person who dozed off in the Starry Sky Theater and woke up to have insight into the mysteries of the universe, a small town department store that has long been abandoned but has always coexisted with the residents, the world's last mobile tribe of miniature giants, a former employee who has been hiding in the garden of an office building for several years, a pedestrian bridge that is not satisfied with being fixed in one place, and a warehouse attendant who is responsible for guarding Star Wars war preparedness supplies... These stories are not science fiction, alien, fantasy, or magical, but all focus on various existences in the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"We walk around without knowing what we are doing, but of course we have some idea of ​​what we are doing. It is not right to say that we do not have any identity. At least we are lost people. Being a lost person is like a job, and we have to do it seriously.\" The young clerk and writer Shen Dacheng thought in an orderly manner and wove carefully, and once again completed an extraordinary journey of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ★ Twice shortlisted for the Youth Literature Award. Recommended by writers Su Tong and Tang Nuo, \"I am a reader of Shen Dacheng.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Shen Dacheng has been shortlisted for the Blancpain Idealist Prize twice for her two collections of short stories, \"The One I Remember Often\" and \"Asteroid Falls in the Afternoon,\" earning recognition from numerous judges. Her work stands out among her contemporaries, capturing a distinctive and unique style. With her own unique whimsical vision, she depicts the realities of contemporary life and psychological dilemmas, caring deeply about the people and objects in this world, the only one we truly possess.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriter Su Tong believes that \"Lost Man\" possesses \"a relaxed, expansive, and boundless imagination.\" Writer and critic Tang Nuo handwrote a recommendation for the book, hundreds of words in length: \"...Shen Dacheng's imaginative writing is unpredictable, always telling magical stories with calm words, as Borges said. Miracles occur, but the people are real and substantial. Almost all the essential details of human life are preserved. Therefore, her writing constantly creates metaphors, giving us a feeling of constantly looking back. This real world may not be worthy of such attention, but ultimately, it is the only one we truly possess.\" \"I am a reader of Shen Dacheng.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 【Expert Recommendation】\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This time, Shen Dacheng's extraordinary imagination seemed to have taken several steps forward; perhaps, she seemed more at ease. She thought quietly and methodically, weaving carefully and meticulously, less afraid than before to venture into those futile fantasies that held no answers. Weaving these fantasies together, one extraordinary journey after another—yes, imagination should be a path, a way out, not just a burst of fireworks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...Her writing is unpredictable, always telling magical stories with calm words, as Borges said. Miracles may occur, but people are real and substantial, retaining almost all the essential details of human life. Therefore, they constantly create metaphors, giving us a feeling of constant reflection. 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Her imagination is unfettered, expansive, and boundless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ——Su Tong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"台海出版社","offers":[{"title":"Simplified Chinese \/ Hardcover","offer_id":46085141168367,"sku":"9787516830475","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4849\/4319\/files\/1dLHTfSF8t9H_hB7q9HY_9IRpqOPLWGkF.jpg?v=1734602871"},{"product_id":"浪的景观-9787532182244","title":"Wave Landscape","description":"\"My friends and I were once in a tropical storm in the 1990s. I took my friends on bicycles and headed straight into the water, pedaling hard.\u003cbr\u003e And then, together, we entered the dry next century.” \u003cbr\u003e——Zhou Jianing※ Four years later, Zhou Jianing’s new collection of novellas follows Basic Beauty, completing the millennial novella trilogy with Goodbye Solar Eclipse, Landscape of Waves, and Tomorrow’s Party. 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