Slowly smile

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 Shadows, she explains: "Looking back, watching so many films in my youth, I never missed a single one, not even the educational shorts 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, this book also includes half of its content as Mao Jian's miscellaneous writings about the human world. She was born in Shanghai and studied in Hong Kong. The bustling life of these two places flows before her eyes, and after experiencing it for a long time, she naturally understands people and the world better than those born in the countryside. When it comes to storytelling, she is unmatched.