Wanshou Temple - (Color Illustration Edition) - (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Brand-new illustrated edition, reorganized into volumes, encompassing all of Wang Xiaobo's major works. His weapons were simple—just common sense and reason. This volume includes a long titled "Wanshou Temple," originally from "The Bronze Age." The illustrations in this volume were created by the artist Hu Xiaojiang. "In the late Tang Dynasty, Xue Song served as a military governor in Western Hunan. On his way to his post, he brought along his iron spear." And so the story begins. Everything in Chang'an City has come to an end. Everything is irrevocably heading toward mediocrity. —Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo's works have remained popular and influential. His novels have created a unique beauty in the world of literature, like a bright light piercing through the barriers of time and inspiring generations of young readers who are just beginning to learn to read and write. Moreover, this phenomenon also suggests that some of Wang Xiaobo's targets of criticism are still very much alive. To this day, these words and ideas are still needed in our society. From Wang Xiaobo's enduring popularity, we can only conclude that the spread of liberal ideas in China still has a long way to go. The artistic beauty he in his works, along with the liberal ideals he disseminated through his critiques of the real world, have secured a place in the world's cultural and intellectual treasury. Although there is no certificate like the Nobel Prize to validate this, we believe that time itself is the testament to the value of his works.