After Crossing: Conversations with Contemporary Famous Writers

Author: Jiang Guangping
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The heart opens through dialogue, expands through openness, and finds peace through spaciousness. Communication is everywhere, yet we often keep our hearts closed. In conversations with people, we engage more with the language of daily life; in dialogues with books, we delve deeper into the language of the spirit; in conversations with all things in the world, we gain divine insights and Zen enlightenment. Most of the authors interviewed in this book are names that cannot be bypassed when discussing contemporary Chinese literature. The simultaneous presence of the author, the work, and the reader (critic) gives these dialogues multiple dimensions: the author's creative experiences, the reader's reading perceptions, the critic's sharp perspectives—these all fill the book with a chorus of voices rather than the monologue of a single author or reader (critic). Step into contemporary Chinese literature, step into this book...