At 9 a.m. one morning in January 2010, I'm on the second floor of a five-story apartment building on Lane 61, Yong'an Street, Xindian. Sunlight is pouring into the building, falling on a stack of manuscript paper sitting on the desk in the living room, highlighting the closely written, almost illegible lines of characters.
這是 2010 年元月，新店永安街 61 巷一棟 5 層樓公寓的 2 樓。上午 9 點，有陽光斜射進屋，落在客廳書桌一疊印有「后山居」的稿紙，紙上寫滿一行行難以辨認的字跡。