We can't do anything about love

Author: A Cheng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: "We Can't Do Anything About Love" is a collection of dialogues from the "Dialogue" column of China's pure literature magazine "Harvest." It includes twelve interviews conducted over two years—Yan Tie-sheng, paralyzed at the age of twenty-one, expresses gratitude for the life-and-death insights his disability has brought him; Lin Bai, who decides to participate in online dating, is particularly eager to write a long 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 the "wolf grandmother," recalls Gu Cheng's poverty and helplessness in his youth; Jiang Wen insists on opening the film only when he can smell it.