Ximuru and her Inner Mongolia

Author: Xi Murong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Xi Murong hasn’t aged; still radiant at over 60, she remains full of vitality. Her poetry hasn’t aged either; readers still love her Aroma of the Seven Miles, which remains a bestseller. Her words haven’t aged either; the emotions in her new book still possess the power to penetrate the heart. This book is her latest masterpiece, where she selects over 300 photographs from tens of thousands to include in the new volume, pairing them with beautiful and melancholic text to depict her spiritual homeland in her heart—a distant yet close place: Inner Mongolia. This book will spark a wave of nostalgia, allowing readers to discover a different Xi Murong, one belonging to her hometown of Inner Mongolia.
Xi Murong is a Mongolian, born in Chongqing, Sichuan in 1943, with aristocratic ancestry from the Ming’an Banner of the Chahar League. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Taiwan Normal University and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. She is a renowned painter in Taiwan, as well as a celebrated essayist and poet. Her works include poetry collections such as Aroma of the Seven Miles, Youth Without Regrets, and Nine Poems of Time, and prose collections like A Song, Poetry in the Land, as well as art theory works such as Exploring the Soul and On the Theory of Thunder and Color Art. Her works are imbued with ancient Eastern philosophy, carry a religious tone, and reveal a sense of the melancholic beauty of impermanence in life.
This book is her new work, introducing readers to her spiritual homeland—Inner Mongolia, as she sees it. This book is the author’s new work, introducing readers to her spiritual homeland, her beloved Inner Mongolia. It includes works such as I Fold My Love, Songs of the Bonfire, The Wind in the Sky, Ode, and Creation Poem.