We can't do anything about love: Dialogue

Author: Chen Cun, A City
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: "We Can't Help It with Love" is a collection of dialogues from the "Dialogue" column of China's pure literature magazine "Harvest." It includes twelve recorded conversations over a period of two years—Yan Tie Sheng, paralyzed at the age of twenty-one, expresses gratitude for the life-and-death insights brought by his disability; Lin Bai, who decides to engage in online dating, particularly longs to write a erotic novel; Zhu De Yong, who has always drawn people, has never liked people since childhood; Mr. He You Zhi, an eighty-year-old cartoonist, loves to stroll the streets and pick out the best watches from antique shops; Shu Ting, already a "wolf grandmother," recalls Gu Cheng's poverty and helplessness in his youth; Jiang Wen insists on opening the film only when he can smell its essence.