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Books by Xing Hanfeng of Zijin Mountain
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Thinking of Wanqing at Dusk 黄昏念晚晴
This is a long novel about loneliness and emotional struggles in old age. The protagonist, Zhang Licheng, retires at sixty, looking forward to spending his leisurely later years with his wife. But not long after retiring, he receives divorce papers. For the next three years, he lives alone in a tiny apartment, shifting from “At last, some peace and quiet” to “It’s so quiet, it’s making me uneasy.” His bed is always cold, his meals are always makeshift, and when he wakes in the night, he can only
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A Round Belly 滚圆的肚子
A Round Belly
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The Monk Who Left the Clergy 还俗僧
His name is Zhang Xiao Mo. An orphan from a farming family in the Central Plains, he was fifteen when both his parents died. A monastery in the mountains took him in. His head was shaved, he donned a monk’s robe, and he was given the Buddhist name Sheng Xian. From then on, his life was meant to be one of lamps and ancient Buddhas, morning bells and evening drums, until one night, the whistle of a train down the mountain reached his ears, and his heart never found peace again. At eighteen, he lef
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Three Chapters of the Marriage Contract 婚书三章
Three Articles of the Marriage Contract
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Thinking of Wanqing at Dusk: Sequel 黄昏念晚晴:续
This is a work of realism that confronts the dilemma of elder care in China. Zhang Licheng is sixty-eight, has been retired for eight years, and has lived alone for five. His knees are shot, and he can no longer climb high places. Old Wu across the hall has a wife to help him out of the car. Zhang has no one. His monthly pension is ten thousand yuan, but medicine and groceries keep getting more expensive. What he fears most is falling ill: one illness could wipe out half a year's pension. Back
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A Bird Scared by a Bow: How Can We Nest Together on the Same Branch Again? 惊弓之鸟,如何再共栖一枝
A Frightened Bird: How Can They Nest Together on One Branch Again?
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My Best Friend Borrowed My Husband to Have a Child 闺蜜借夫生子
My Best Friend Borrows My Husband to Have a Child
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The Orange Pagoda and the Plum Consort's Love 桔塔与梅妃情
The Romance of the Tangerine Pagoda and Consort Mei
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Eating Thin Noodles on the Fifth Day of the New Year 初五吃线面
Eating Noodles on the Fifth Day of the New Year
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[Earth and Long Sky] The Road Upward 【大地与长天】一条向上的路
The paths he walked never soared into the clouds. They simply followed the pulse of the earth, choosing the uphill route at every fork. Mornings when sickles cut through the wheat, nights when tax forms piled up like hills, hours on guard as pines whispered beside his helmet, moments of writing as warplanes took off from the edges of his manuscript: these footprints, deep and shallow, eventually joined into one little path. It led to no summit. It simply let him look back and see that he had nev
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