Slowly Smile (Selected Works by Mao Jian)

Author: Mao Jian
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The themes covered in this book can be broadly categorized into literature and film. Mao Jian's passion for film reaches the level of obsession. In Passing Shadows, she writes: "Looking back, I watched so many films in my youth and never missed a single one, not even the educational shorts shown before the main feature. It seems everyone is fascinated by the moment the lights suddenly go out. That moment is the shape of dreams, the soul leaving the body, and you don't know what year it is anymore." Beyond literature and film, the book also includes half of its content as the author's miscellaneous writings about the human world. She was born in Shanghai and studied in Hong Kong. The bustling life of these two places flows before her eyes, and after experiencing it for a long time, she naturally understands people and the world better than those who grew up in the countryside. When it comes to storytelling, she is unmatched.