I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile..

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural..

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he e….

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of….

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu..

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth..

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it..

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat..

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow..

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage..

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine….

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions..

Indifference is the strongest contempt..

We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?.