Wooden doll ( CD with the book)

Author: Wu Hongfei
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Zhang Ailing's foundation is grand and luxurious, while Wu Hongfei's is desolate. Zhang Ailing's fate falls upon her like the extinction of the dinosaurs, vast and heavy, whereas Wu Hongfei's fate is that of a small animal on a wasteland, facing constant danger every moment. — Literary critic, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's Literature, Li Jingze
Poetic verses and unrhymed talent keep luring Wu Hongfei toward the distant heavens, yet pity always brings her back to earth. From nothingness to existence, from uncertainty to precariousness, from academic indifference to fate, aging, death, futility, waiting for breath, kindness, happiness, purity, loyalty, health, confidence, singing? — Peking University PhD, Pu Lanlan
She writes about all things unsafe. Hunger, poverty, humility, struggle. She carefully selects the heart-wrenching moments from them: the little girl who never says "I want," the father chasing a car with two steaming buns, the shameless friends who mooch for money, food, and shelter, the woman-writer/reporter who, in loneliness, cannot fathom why her boyfriend abandoned her. This extreme yearning for material wealth yet extreme poverty of the little girl is, in fact, the epitome of countless ordinary girls today. Through her words, she achieves a form of communication and conspiracy with her readers. — Writer, "Moonlight as the Moon"
Exaggeration is inferior to the sun, subtlety to the stars. Just as Ailing's confessions evoke only sympathy, her displays of vanity evoke tenderness. Ailing's unrestrained behavior makes you smile and shake your head without harm, while her stubborn devotion makes your heart restless yet helpless. — Online writer, Chairman of the Board
Her band is neither punk nor metal, nor death nor gothic, nor rap. Her writing style is similar to her band—it's not the lower body, not Qiong Yao, not Zhang Ailing, not Wang Xiaobo, nor New Weekly. It is (arbitrary and unruly), (fierce), (fragile), and contradictory, yet like humble craftsmen, it is patient, meticulous, and responsible. — Poet, scholar, Peking University PhD in Literature, Jiang Tao
Xiaolong's room has neither sky nor earth, neither the outside world nor crowds. Enveloped in darkness is the secret and twisted desire of a woman untouched by the world. Yet what is striking is that this narrowness is presented in a sublime, expansive manner, making it feel not like a tiny space but as if stepping into a vast, grand, and bizarre wilderness. — Music critic, Li Wan
The novel Wooden Doll tells a pure, poignant, and warm love story, highlighting the innocence and original sin of humanity, impermanence, and despair. The writing is concise, magnificent, sharp, eerie, blending history and reality, fiction and legend, cruelty and warmth, tradition and modernity. Renowned literary critic and Editor-in-Chief of People's Literature, Li Jingze, wrote the preface for the novel collection Wooden Doll, stating, "This is the book that more sharply and precisely than any other displays the complexity of this generation's experiences and souls."