Once you've seen the sea

Author: Tang Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Have you ever stood on a cliff or at the top of a high mountain? Have you ever felt the ancient walls and perilous buildings? Have you ever experienced the physical and mental limits of near-death? Have you ever gone through emotional waves of life-and-death? Once Upon a Time in the Great Wall might bring you unprecedented danger and exhilaration. The novel is set against the Ming Dynasty Great Wall in Beijing and Hebei, depicting the adventures of Zheng Yi, Wang Tianming, and others as they explore the Great Wall and delve into aesthetics and art. It portrays the pursuits of middle-aged people from different regions, backgrounds, ages, and types in the new era for their careers, lives, and emotions. The main plot unfolds in the Great Wall, Beijing, and a southern coastal city. Through extensive narration and delicate psychological descriptions, the novel focuses on shaping the images of two pairs of lovers—Zheng Yi and Jiang Xue, and Wang Tianming and Lin Xin—while deeply exploring their motivations and inner worlds regarding emotions, careers, and life attitudes. At the same time, by outlining two different types of emotional relationships, the novel also aims to explore methods of thinking and writing about how to view and handle alternative emotional relationships in modern life that concern social ethics and moral norms, in hopes of resonating with people of all levels.