Sorrow in August: Selected Works of Lin Huiyin

Author: Lin Huiyin
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book includes Lin Huiyin's essays, novels, poems, plays (including stage design), translated works, and as many Chinese-English letters as possible. Additionally, dozens of photographs are included at the beginning of the book, almost forming her illustrated biography, presenting a Renaissance-style figure to us.
White ducks swim in the yellow water tank, the sorghum stalks are so tall they seem to leap, how does this beating heart find its place? A narrow path in the field, in August, what kind of sorrow? The sky is washed by last night's rain, the mountain ridges cast another shadow under the sun; the sheep follow the shepherd into the village, under the shade of a large tree, a well is covered, and it seems like a heart! No one has ever spoken of August, the summer is past, and it's not yet autumn. But as I gaze at the fields, the melons on the wall, I still don't understand how life and dreams are intertwined. — August's Sorrow Lin Huiyin, marveling at such a rare and truly remarkable woman in the world.
Lin Huiyin, hailed by Hu Shih as a "generation of talented women," was a female architect and writer of the 20th century in China. The talent, beauty, and legendary life she embodied left a lasting impression on the world. In 1924, when Tagore visited China, she was admired by the upper class as "beautiful as a flower." If it weren't for the timing of her life, or her frequent illnesses, perhaps the modern world would have known her as a true poet, a titan in the history of modern architecture. Reading Lin Huiyin, marveling at such a rare and truly remarkable woman.
A peerless talent, peerless beauty; a rare and truly remarkable woman.