When the flowers bloom

Author: Liu Xuan et al.
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book is a narrative by a group of university students about their current university life. In youth, one longs for adulthood, filled with aspirations for the future. As one grows older and gains experience, nostalgia sets in, and people begin to cherish memories. Aspiration and nostalgia are both natural human emotions, like the misty and ethereal scenery on both banks of a river, which requires a solid bridge to connect them—that bridge is "the present." Compared to "the past" and "the future," "the present" possesses a unique "ongoing" quality, being graspable and highly malleable. In this book, we can rediscover our own past. A self-narrative of university life. It includes the aspirations of high school students, the intoxication of university students, and the memories of alumni. It features Olympic champion Liu Xuan sharing her student life at Peking University. I really came, to see, whether what they said was the same as what I thought. For this purpose, who knows how many times I have withered, and then been reborn a thousand and one times, all for the sake of a distant yet steadfast ideal in my heart. The lake's reflection, the shadows of the towers. The campus paths leading in every direction—what color is university, like the ginkgo trees? I only know that the flowers really bloomed this autumn!