: My pastoral diary

Author: Zhou Peihong
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
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Synopsis
This book is a long memory of the field. With her unique sensitivity and poetic touch, the author Zhou Peihong describes her eight-year experience as a youth worker in a remote village in East Anhui, capturing the subtle impressions and traces left on her heart. Like a damp breeze, they gently brush over this long-forgotten and neglected land. The author avoids the self-absorbed sentiment often found in traditional youth worker essays, adopting a detached yet intimate perspective to reveal the raw and unfiltered essence of rural life: power and desire, labor and sexuality, birth and death all dissolve and merge in the struggle of living with the earth as your back and the sky as your face. Even the diverse characters in this place seem to transform into trees in the field, their numbness revealing simplicity, their stubbornness pulsing with spirit, all deeply intertwined with the land... In terms of literary style, the book boldly experiments, skillfully blending the wisdom of fiction with the freedom of prose. The thirty-five essays are both independent and interconnected. The author's writing is calm yet expansive, permeated with emotion and reflection, making it a captivating and thought-provoking collection of essays.