This ten-volume, thirty-nine-part novel is framed as a geologist’s notebook and layers people, land, memory, and idealism. Its hallmark is a narrative that spans vast stretches of time and space.

A ten-volume work that follows people and memory as if walking the land itself.

This novel portrays the reality of rural substitute teachers and follows the hardship and dignity of the people who supported education in the reform era countryside. It can be read as an expansion of the themes of Phoenix Piano.

A quiet struggle by the people who keep the school lights on.

Centered on the life of the obstetrician known as Auntie, the novel looks back on half a century of family-planning policy. It brings private memory and state policy into sharp collision.

A single woman’s life becomes the history of childbirth and birth control in China.

Through the lives and emotions of blind massage practitioners, the novel depicts the world of people living on the margins of the city. Their senses and ethics emerge with remarkable subtlety.

In darkness, the texture of life becomes even more vivid.

Built around the longing for someone to talk to, the novel follows relationships across generations. Its central theme is the rarity of truly understanding conversation within ordinary life.

A story about searching for someone who truly understands what you mean.