Children's private affairs

Author: Zhang Cuo
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: A vast night, a vast unknown, a vast worry. From youth to middle age, and then from middle age to old age, everything that could happen has already happened. All the consequences, whether inescapable fate or survival after disaster, are well understood in the heart, tending towards tranquility and stillness. One should know that what is called private family matters are, in fact, also matters of state and nation. Just as Jian Mi described the essay "Eighteen Strings" when compiling a selection of prose: "In terms of cultural belonging, America is Zhang Cuo's 'foreign land'; for the daughter who was born and raised there, China is her 'foreign land'." Due to this cultural exchange, extremely intricate emotions arise. Living abroad for a long time, I constantly nurture a yearning for the homeland from the margins, while my two daughters, who grew up overseas, take their father's 'foreign land' as their sense of belonging.