Beauty gave me maddening medicine

Author: Wang Shuo, Lao Xia
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: The restless Wang Shuo is always up for stirring things up. In this book, Wang Shuo and the mysterious interlocutor, Lao Xia, conduct a review and critique of contemporary Chinese culture and arts. They discuss their own ideals and writing, condemn the vulgarity of mass culture, attack the hypocrisy of intellectuals, criticize popular film directors, talk about the relationship between sex and love in novels and reality, and debate the seating positions of contemporary writers. These two angry middle-aged men reveal the inner truth of our era's cultural environment through emotional conversations.