I Want To

This book carefully brings together more than 40 of Xu Dishan's classic works, including beloved pieces such as "Peanuts," "The Mask," and "The Weary Mother." Particularly noteworthy is the classic essay "Peanuts," which has been widely celebrated for its profound meaning and elegant prose, and included in many Chinese-language textbooks and supplementary readers. In this essay, Mr. Xu used the "spirit of the peanut," which "does not envy the beautiful fruit on the branches, but is content to be a little peanut beneath the earth," to explain his own aspirations in life: to contribute quietly and become a useful person. In addition, works such as "Spring in the Woods" and "The Mother of All Things" are treasured, indispensable legacies of the brilliant cultural landscape of the Republic of China era, thanks to their distinctive style and profound reflections.