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Shan Dexing (hereinafter referred to as "Shan"): Hello friends at home and abroad, welcome to this grand event. Today we are very honored to invite Mr. Ha Jin to give a speech at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. Normally the lectures of the European and American Institute are arranged in the conference room opposite, but today we have specially prepared this large conference hall because we know that Mr. Ha Jin's lecture will attract a lot of people. In the past few days, everyone has heard from the media that Mr. Ha Jin came to Taiwan to participate in the 2010 Taipei International Book Fair. After I learned that he was coming to Taipei last year, I actively contacted him and invited him to give a speech at Academia Sinica. Therefore, I would like to thank him for accepting our invitation and facilitating this grand event today.

Yu Hua's preface is highly recommended! So far the only Chinese-American novel to win both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Novel Award! Peter Chan "was so moved" after reading it that he spent ten years planning to make a movie of the same name, which was adapted by Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Alive", "Farewell My Concubine" and "Wolf Totem". "A flawless novel." For the first time, more than 13,000 words of interviews with Xu Zhiyuan and Ha Jin are included. It has been selling well for nearly 20 years and has been published in more than 20 languages ​​around the world. This book is Ha Jin's first novel published in China. It tells the story of Kong Lin, a military doctor who waited for eighteen years during the Cultural Revolution to finally divorce his wife Shuyu. When he married his long-time lover Wu Manna, he lost the passion of love. The new life made him extremely irritable. He went to visit his first wife again, but found peace in his heart there. After many years, the next endless wait began again. The emotional entanglement of three people and the eighteen years of waiting are a prison of time and a slave to fate. What is love, and what's the point of waiting? Under the tricks of time and fate, everything no longer matters. It seems that only by calmly accepting the arrangement and waiting can there be hope.