China in Ten Words

Daily life may seem trivial and routine, but in fact it contains a multitude of incidents, at once rich, expansive, and touching. Politics, history, society, and culture, one’s memories and emotions, desires and secrets—all reverberate there.

No one will grant us deliverance Neither god nor emperor To create happiness for man We depend on our own labor.

Writing is like experience: if you don’t experience things, then you won’t understand life; and if you don’t write, then you won’t know what you’re capable of creating.

All of us have countless desires and emotions that we cannot express, inhibited as we are by mundane realities and rational instincts. But in the world of writing these suppressed desires and emotions can find an unrestricted outlet.

Experience tells me that too many answers are the same as none at all; perhaps only one can constitute a real answer.