Rule of Law for the World (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Liu Guiming
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: "Distinctly Not a Dream, Neither Smoke" (Preface)
The poem by Zhang Sizhi and Deng Tuo contains an endless affection for his twenty years of "writing like dragons and snakes." In its unique desolation and helplessness, I felt a genuine confidence. It seems that every loyal journalist, editor, and newspaper person can draw the nourishment they need from it. The author of this collection is a young traveler who maps out life's journey day and night through interviews. He lacks the opportunity of the young Xiao Qian, who witnessed the fiery skies, heard the earth-shaking (artillery sounds), smelled the suffocating smoke, and wrote "Symphony of Contradictions" amidst the flying battles and "Autumn Twilight in Southern Germany" after World War II. I have no intention of comparing Deng Tuo's brilliant life with his. He has his own battlefield and understands the mission he carries, leaving traces of his journey in continuous progress—fragments and drops, forming his own symphony. His footsteps have traversed...