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"The Two Hundred Years' Child" is a fantasy novel written by Japanese Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe. In this work, three children, a mentally retarded brother, a healthy sister and a younger brother, use a time travel device to witness various scenes of social changes and historical processes in Japan over the past 150 years, and the story unfolds accordingly. The author uses a narrative structure that intersects time and space to express Japan's two hundred years of history since the Meiji Restoration, as well as the state of human soul and body, material and spirituality in this historical process, thus proposing the idea of ​​"new man". In addition to continuing the social themes of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection in the four dimensions of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection during the period when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the work also focuses on thinking and exploring the future destiny of mankind, and ultimately places what he thinks is the answer on children as the "new human beings."

With the birth of a disabled baby, "Bird", as a father, falls into a moral dilemma. He dreamed of going on an adventure trip to Africa, but he was afraid that he would be tied to the baby, but he didn't dare to end his life with his own hands, so he chose to escape. Bird abandoned the newborn in the hospital, hoping that he would weaken and die, while he went into the tender home of his old lover Himiko, numbing himself with sex and wine. How should a bird trapped in self-purgatory find a way out of life?