The Stairway of the Earth (A Lai Collection)

Author: A Lai
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: A Lai does not call out in the manner of an advocate, but quietly listens to the beating heart of a nation and amplifies this voice. This "cross-ethnic writing" displays a dazzling brilliance. The long-form geographical prose "Steps of the Earth" was written in 2000. A Lai views the series of mountains leading from the Chengdu Plain to the top of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the steps of the earth, and his words are as majestic as the scenery. A Lai is a Tibetan writer, and his creative work began with poetry. A Lai's poetry, with its pure language and transcendent imagery, portrays the yet vast and silent life on the plateau. Since the mid-1980s of the last century, A Lai has attempted to express the life of Tibetans as he sees them through narrative. He transcends the method of writing ballads, using pure and flowing Chinese to depict the living conditions of Tibetan farmers, their dignity, and their confusion. A Lai does not call out in the manner of an advocate, but quietly listens to the beating heart of a nation and amplifies this voice. This "cross-ethnic writing" displays a dazzling brilliance. The long-form geographical prose "Steps of the Earth" was written in 2000. A Lai views the series of mountains leading from the Chengdu Plain to the top of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the steps of the earth, and his words are as majestic as the scenery.