Crossing through Guo Jingming - The Imagination Forest of the Only Generation

Author: Zhu Zi
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: I love standing on a cliff, watching the luxurious and bright youth lying at my feet, tears streaming down my face. Standing at sixteen, standing at the turning point of youth, standing at the gap between one life and another, I finally break down in tears. On days when the black wind blows, on days when I see the blood-spraying birds crying in the sky, on days when the red lotus blooms and cherry blossoms are wounded, between your smiles and frowns, in the cracks and gaps of thousands of years of time, I am always tearful. Because I always think of you endlessly, is this a cruel and gentle imprisonment? Many years later, I stand by the coast where a refining stone stands, facing the sea, facing my kingdom, facing my subjects who obey me, facing the clamor of the mortal world, facing the sky where the snow-spraying birds fly, tears streaming down my face.
This book focuses on a group, a group that is currently very important and will represent China in the future. And this group has never been taken seriously as an independent unit before. Today's youth, these post-80s and post-90s, and we are extremely different. To find the root cause of this difference, we call them "the only generation." Guo Jingming's new work has sold over a million copies. Unlike other best-selling writers, Guo Jingming has become an icon in this group. Naturally, he has become a symbol. This book explores the so-called "Guo Jingming phenomenon" — Guo Jingming, his works, the vast number of fans surrounding him, his words and deeds, his troubles, and his joys — the echoes it creates in this group. For the first time, it gives full attention, analysis, criticism, and reflection to "the only generation" (the only-child generation born in the late 1980s), who will represent China in the future, as an independent group.
The irrational adoration of Guo Jingming — it is the only-child generation. They are in an era of profound transformation in China, facing unprecedented problems and challenges, where the individual and self are magnified infinitely in them.