37 degrees 8

Author: Yin Lichuan
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: "3708" is a highly readable essay collection recently released by Yin Lichuan following her novel "Thirteen Without Dependence." The book compiles some of the author's outstanding works in recent years, covering a wide range of topics. It includes both insightful critiques and everyday musings. You can surely sense the author's earnest courage in her expressions, like a freshly painted signboard where everyone wants to press their handprint. Let's imitate, imitate the past, imitate TV dramas, let's replicate a little happiness, let me bake you a snack, let's imagine the oven, imagine the cravings. A little bit of snack crumbs fall on the white bedsheet. Why are you suddenly crying? Where did you get those tears? Then I'll just commit suicide, if I can find red ink. These women's petty grievances and men's wandering hearts, these flying love declarations. These scraps locked away in our treasure chests by strong women. We won’t throw ourselves into the river; we’ll wait to collect the corpses of youth. Even if the West had western novels first and then popularized western films, I think western films will still often be made very well. It’s simple—cultural factors. Western heroes with guns, however charming, are still realistic. Realism plus a touch of fantasy: the speed of drawing a gun. Eastern heroes are so expressive: Ximen Chuixue blows snow, not blood. Who would dare to film Ximen Chuixue?