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"A Green Migratory Bird" is a highly difficult piece of Chen Yingzhen's novels. It contains political and ideological criticism in the form of an obscure allegory. "One green migratory bird" is not just a general hope, but has a more historical referent. The three main characters in the novel represent the three possible subject states and ways of facing the "future" of Taiwanese intellectuals in the 1960s. The outline of Zhao Gong hides the criticism of the Kuomintang's rule and the lamentation of the mental and personality state of intellectuals; the young teacher Chen lacks subjectivity and only wants to live in a distant future, which is the object of the author's criticism; the low-key Ji Gong is the core character of the novel, carrying the author's exploration of a way out.

"The Whistling Engine" is a factory-themed novel composed of five independent but interrelated novellas. The novel describes a young worker's various adventures in the factory and his extraordinary life destiny. The factory in the novel is a slightly absurd and realistic place. The factory is filled with all kinds of strange workers, including thieves, magicians, actors, liars, ventriloquists, a young factory director who dropped out of school and a mute who can talk, a young man who drives a car and a car mechanic who mistakenly enters college, etc. Everyone is struggling in reality, and they use their own tricks to change their embarrassing fate... 18-Year-old X is a car mechanic. At the beginning of the novel, he encountered a faulty engine. He tried various methods but failed to repair it. As a last resort, he asked his magic workers for help and planned to steal the engine and sell it. However, their plan was spotted by the police from the beginning. Just when the deal was about to be completed, strange things happened one after another...