Cai Feng Lou -- Liu Xinwu's Best Collection (Volume 3)

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume includes the novel The Roosting Phoenix Pavilion and Liu Xinwu's representative works from his creative career, such as White Teeth and Xiao Dunzi. The Roosting Phoenix Pavilion portrays the diverse characters of a metropolis with a strong humanitarian spirit, featuring a mysterious wealthy woman, foreign-funded agents, ordinary citizens, retired workers, the garbage king, massage girls, as well as figures from the entertainment and cultural circles, mid-to-high-level officials, private enterprise bosses, and foreign-Chinese. Together, they create a vibrant and fantastical urban landscape. As the author said: "The 'Three Pavilions' series, consisting of The Bell and Drum Towers, The Four-Flag Towers, and The Roosting Phoenix Pavilion, forms a century-long narrative of Beijing, 'imbued with the complex emotions of joy and sorrow I feel toward this ancient city as it undergoes the process of modernization.'"