Flowing room

Author: Xue Yiwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is a collection of short stories by Xue Yiwu. It includes works published in magazines such as Harvest, Flowers City, Tianya, Taiwan's United Literature, Hong Kong's Pure Literature, and the U.S.'s Today, both shortly before he left the literary scene in 1991 and after his return in 1996. It features beloved stories like Taxi Driver, critically acclaimed works such as Victory in the First Battle, and the author's self-praised Guangzhou Uprising. "The Individual," or the "universal humanity" that individuals carry, is a common theme in all of Xue Yiwu's works, regardless of whether the specific background is disguised as love or death, the present or the past, war or peace. Eight years after the publication of Xue Yiwu's long Abandonment, it suddenly became a topic in the academic world. However, this collection of short stories was finally published only after a period of discussion and attention from a group of renowned scholars and many enthusiastic readers. In either case, time is a fair praise for Xue Yiwu's works.