Pain of the countryside, in the depths of the city

Author: Xu Xiao (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This is not the pain of leaving one's homeland, but the powerless pain that permeates the blood and soul. For us living in cities, the scenes we see every day, once familiar, no longer move us. Our emotional detachment from the vast majority of people, our apathy and selfishness, our complacency that we deem self-evident, leave them helpless and confused—it is the root of this pain. The pain that permeates the fringes of cities and the desolate countryside reflected in this book reveals the most severe problem in China's modernization process—the rural issue. What you see in this book is no longer powerless appeals and cheap sighs, but the sweet and bitter experiences shared with our elders and fellow villagers. What we gain is no longer a moral satisfaction, but the completion of a journey of universal love that purifies ourselves.