Looking for the Incomparable. East Palace West Palace: East Palace West Palace

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is about wisdom—or more precisely, about encounters with wisdom. It is my long, and when I finished writing it, I suddenly recalled the last few lines of Metamorphoses (Ovid): My poem is complete. Neither the wrath of the gods nor earthquakes can erase it! —Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo's works have remained popular, and his novels have created a unique beauty in the world of literature. This beauty is like a strong light that pierces through the barriers of time, inspiring the hearts 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. And to this day, these words and these 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 that Wang Xiaobo in his works, along with the liberal ideas he disseminated through his criticism of the real world, has 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 certificate of his works' value.