Still Prefer Pain (Li Bihua's Works Collection)

Author: Li Bihua
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Li Bihua's essays are strongly imbued with social awareness, which is not analyzed from a high political or social perspective but rather from the perspective of ordinary people. Through the lines of news, both big and small, she reveals the comical, pitiful, or even tragic aspects of events. In the collection Still Prefer Pain, this style is fully demonstrated. The collection includes Li Bihua's essay Blood Like Lipstick and a Butterfly's Dress, written in memory of the suicide of singer, which showcases a rarely seen emotional side of Li Bihua. She writes: "On April 8th, you turned into a wisp of smoke, a handful of dust, you truly left, never to return. You have always feared death, avoided heights, loved beauty, and cherished your body. I can't imagine how much courage and resolve it must have taken for you to leap from the 24th floor."