In mid-1990s rural China, two sisters-in-law set upon a dangerous journey in Xuemo’s compelling novel Into the Desert (Long River Press). There aren’t many choices beyond marriage for pious, practical
Xuemo, born in China’s far west, is a writer who plumbs the earth with his footsteps and lives through his pen. A favorite son of the Qilian Mountain Range, he
After you have clearly understood this point, you will gradually feel tired of everything, as if you no longer cared about any of it. Elegant clothes and delicious food will
Treating people well is a kind of love, because only when you have love and compassion in your mind will you be able to genuinely treat yourself and other people
For example, you see a beautiful woman, and after you appreciate her beauty, that’s it. You do not have to evaluate whether or not her actions match her beautiful appearance,
Why can it be like this? Because you were dragged off by the thought “I want to read the news,” and you kept on following this thought and the many
When the voices of good in this society surpass the voices of evil, then they will form a kind of good collective unconscious, and then this world will change. Thus
In [the classic sixteenth century Chinese novel] The Journey to the West, the reason the Tang Monk became the Tang Monk was not because his flesh was delicious, but because
The maturity you need is not just the maturity at the level of survival skills, but a more fundamental maturity – the maturity of the mind and spirit. When your
If a person consistently serves the interests of other people, to the point that this sort of good behavior becomes an unconscious habit for him, then all the good power
