Slowly smile: Mao Jian's Selected Works -- Myriad Themes Book

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 Days in Light and Shadow, she explains: "Looking back, I watched so many films as a child, yet I never missed a single one, not even the educational shorts that were 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, not knowing what year it is." Besides 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. Having experienced the bustling life of these two places, her observations on people and the world naturally make her more understanding and sensible than those born in the countryside. When it comes to storytelling, she is invincible.