Sky Silk—Selected Works of Cao Wenxuan

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Four idioms may be related to literature, and to the life of literature. They are: "Create Something from Nothing," "Play with Words," "See the World Through a Well," and "Do Nothing."
Excerpt: The Killing of the Dog (1) — In the spring of 1994, I was lying in my home in Inokashira, Tokyo, Japan, flipping through the works of the Czech exile writer Milan