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Author: Zhang Jie
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Publish Date: 2005-05-21
Features: What is "Zhi Zai"? Why did Zhang Jie give this new work such a mysterious and market-unfriendly title? What is the deeper meaning of "Zhi Zai"? Based on my superficial interpretation of the words, "Zhi Zai" is the a priori beyond experience, an unsolvable fate; it is a divine miracle and also the warm, tangible human world. Leave a letter, hoping he finds the other half of the painting. The old man left like this, as if he had found a "new owner" for the painting. The owner of this house probably never imagined that it would be someone like him, an outsider, who would bring an end to this royal mansion and its inhabitants. He jolted, suddenly sensing something. Unfolding the paper, it was indeed the other half of the painting—he nearly fainted. For one thousand seven hundred years, someone had been searching for a person, someone entrusted with the mission of recovering this scroll. Zhang Jie, a renowned female writer awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize, has published her novel "Zhi Zai" in the second issue of this year's Long Fiction Selection. Zhang Jie, a special contribution writer awarded by the State Council, is the only writer in China to date to have won national awards in both short, medium, and long fiction. Her representative works include The Heavy Wings and The Silent Cry. Zhi Zai is her latest novel, following The Silent Cry, and is quite intriguing, though its style differs greatly from that of The Silent Cry. Zhi Zai tells the strange story of a painting over one thousand seven hundred years, a series of poignant loves, and a series of mysterious legends beyond ordinary imagination.