Great Earth's Staircase (A Lai Collection)

Author: Alai
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Alai is a Tibetan writer whose creative career began with poetry. His poetry, characterized by pure language and transcendent imagery, portrays the yet vast and tranquil life on the plateau. Since the mid-1980s of the last century, Alai has attempted to depict the life of Tibetans from his perspective through narrative. He transcends the pastoral style of writing, using pure and flowing Chinese to express the living conditions of Tibetan people in agricultural regions, showcasing their dignity and confusion. Alai does not speak as an advocate, shouting and crying out, but quietly listens to the beating heart of a nation and amplifies this voice. This "cross-ethnic writing" displays a dazzling hue. The long-form geographical prose "The Steps of the Earth" was written in 2000. Alai views the series of mountains stretching from the Chengdu Plain to the top of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the steps of the earth, and his words are as dynamic and magnificent as the scenery.