Crane stops

Author: Ji Ruifang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Someone once asked me why I became interested in Chinese diary-style novels in recent years. If readers read this collection, they will naturally understand my intentions. I went through a circle—when I was a teenager, I loved reading Chinese classical novels, and when I started writing poems, I read a lot of Western novels and poetry, diving deep into them. When I finally started writing my own novels, I discovered the benefits of Chinese classical novels and returned to the poems and novels I once liked, rereading Lao Can You Ji, rereading Dream of the Red Chamber, and especially rereading diary-style novels like Feng Menglong’s Record of Passion. These short stories, each one, are told like poems. Ancient diary-style novels are like treasures hidden in deep caves, dazzling with their luster. Hongying creates her own original ideas, rewriting diary-style novels, wandering between the real and the surreal, moving in and out of ancient and modern times. She transcends the limits of the physical body and time, creating a magical sense of traveling through time through her engaging and conversational writing. Eight stories, eight fates of past and present lives. From the untangling love and hatred between two men in old Shanghai to the love and obsession of a modern urban escort girl’s novel, it is infused with a strong Eastern mysticism while often illuminating the depth of human nature.