"Above the Blue Clouds" is the opening work of his "Texture of the Times Trilogy". The author attempts to explore a fundamental question through Zhang Qingyun's story: when a person with ideals enters a complex system full of realistic rules, how does he define and protect his "victory"? The novel is not only the growth history of Zhang Qingyun, but also a miniature landscape depicting the political ecology and changes of the times in Chinese counties.
