Author: Long Hui
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Long Hui's prose covers a wide range of topics, mostly reflecting his colorful life and nomadic experiences. Throughout the book, the chapter "Mountain Affection and Water Love" records his insights from traveling across the vast land and seas of China at various stages of his life; "Footprints Everywhere" expresses his genuine thoughts filtered from his emotional responses to different life scenes; and "Listening to Waves in the Art Ocean" chronicles his friendships with various artists and worldly-wise individuals through his practical experiences. Regardless of the events, scenes, insights, or experiences he captures, Long Hui writes with simplicity, sincerity, without pretense, without exaggeration, without artificiality, or affectation. I believe this is his consistent style in both his personality and writing.
Strolling along the Shenzhen Bay coast, gazing across the sea at Hong Kong, to the ordinary eye, it is a paradise of paper wealth and material excess. However, Long Hui, a "laoba" (native) who quickly grasped the vicissitudes of life upon entering the special economic zone, sees the Hong Kongers wandering under neon lights and struggling to make a living amidst towering skyscrapers as "They are just like us: yearning for a better future and troubled by life" (from "Strolling Along Shenzhen Bay Coast").