Blue Bird Story Collection
by Li Jingze
About This Novel
Like an archaeologist, Li Jingze travels through the vast historical texts, collecting clues and fragments to weave an intricate picture of the bygone era. He tried to find those people hidden in the back and corners of history, those messengers who had conveyed civilization between the East and the West. He identified their traces in the heavy shadows and listened to their unclear and intermittent voices: he made our eyes stop again. Reflecting on those long past events, we will be intoxicated with "sinking water, ambergris and roses"; we may imagine the "Silver Tree of Boucher"; or we may travel far away with the "Eight Sounds of Ganzhou" in our hearts; more likely, we will focus on the figure of the Christian missionary Matteo Ricci. In imagination, things that have passed away are vividly displayed again. People who have communicated between the East and the West are like bluebirds, flying across the sky. Their flying paths and postures are imagined and engraved.
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