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It tells the story of the lonely, depressed and desperate spiritual world of Zhang Yongli, an intellectual who has been severely traumatized. He strongly criticized the ultra-left trend of thought and complained angrily about the historic disaster that the "ten years of turmoil" had brought to the Chinese nation.

The first novel in contemporary Chinese literature to break through the "sexual forbidden zone", it was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly. After "I" was released from the labor camp, I met Huang Xiangjiu, a woman I had a double relationship with eight years ago in a farm that was once called "Ghost Gate". Although I had only met twice before, and the second time I met her only when passing by in a hurry, this woman named Huang Xiangjiu left an indelible impression on me. The first time I saw Huang Xiangjiu was in the drainage ditch in the rice field of the labor camp: Huang Xiangjiu was taking a bath! Huang Xiangjiu seemed to have forgotten everything and was concentrating on enjoying the joy of taking a bath. She forgot herself, and "I" also forgot myself.

Business tycoon Wang Caogen urgently needs to have a boy to carry on the family line, but unexpectedly his sperm is gone. Eugenics expert Director Liu accidentally discovered that a handsome man had excellent sperm but was ignorant about sex. People from all sides are engaged in a fierce battle for this outstanding "human race" known as 160 million. The emotional entanglement between a handsome man and three women with different personalities is ups and downs, and all kinds of great changes in life outline a picture of contemporary society.

This book is a collection of essays by Zhang Xianliang, a well-known contemporary writer. It contains four major chapters: "The feeling of being close to home is more timid", "The end of the world is like a neighbor", "The desolation of prosperity" and "Thoughts on the times and literature", which reflect the author's rich life experience, from writing, to doing business, to traveling abroad. At the same time, he also paid close attention to people's livelihood, society, and culture, and wrote many constructive opinions into writing, which made people think. Its prose is close to reality and life, and is very suitable for young students to read carefully. In this work, we will embrace the years and travel through time and space with Zhang Xianliang. He returned to his long-lost hometown and enjoyed the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River; he went to his "second hometown" to appreciate the desolation of the desert; he traveled across Europe and fell in love with different civilizations... He read all the philosophies of life in classic works. In the world of life, you are suddenly like a traveler from afar. Zhang Xianliang measures the scale of civilization with his footsteps - traveling with you through thousands of mountains, you will still be a young man when you come back!

Zhang Xianliang, male, from Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, was born in Nanjing in December 1936. In 1957, he was classified as a rightist because he published a long poem "Song of the Wind" in the literary monthly "Yanhe". He was sentenced to labor camp, control, and imprisonment for more than ten years. During this period, he fled and wandered, begging for food. He was rehabilitated in September 1979. In 1980, he was transferred to Ningxia "Shuofang" literary magazine as editor. In the same year, he joined the Chinese Writers Association and began professional literary creation in 1981. He has successively published short stories such as "The Story of Old Man Xing and the Dog", "Spirit and Flesh", "Shor Brak", "First Kiss", etc.; Novellas "Love Stories in the Dungeon", "Dragon Seed", "Children of the River", "Greening Tree", "Romantic Black Cannon", "Half of a Man Is a Woman"; novels "Man's Style", "Getting Used to Death", etc. This book collects "First Kiss", "Descendants of the River", "Puxian Temple", "Shor Brak", and "The Story of Old Man Xing and the Dog"