Grassland Impressions

Author: Zhang Chengzhi
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: At least since the writing of Black Horse, I have become aware that beyond my pen and paper, there exists a severe taboo: I am not a Mongol, this is the origin of my bloodline; I am a person transformed by Mongol nomadic civilization, this is the origin of my strength—Zhang Chengzhi's Return to the Grasslands! I have formed a secret and reciprocal relationship with it, like a rain-soaked depression where saxaul grass thrives. It slowly and steadily transforms me, as if it were constantly immersed in it. And I, whenever I hear its distant echoes, I want to exert every effort to shout out a resounding response; I always wish to use the essence of life it symbolizes to criticize arrogant and hollow culture.