In the years since, Hsi has replaced her poet's garb with the glasses of a historian and the robes of an anthropologist. With an earnest heart and a lucid style, she describes the historical realities, myths, folk songs, and local flavor of the Mongolian steppes. While engrossed in the text, the reader is invariably whisked away to the grassland world that Hsi has recreated.
今日，席慕蓉卸下詩人的外衣，戴上歷史家的眼鏡、換上考古學家的風袍，以認真的態度、清明的筆觸，細寫關於蒙古高原的史實、神話、民間歌謠與風土民情，在閱讀的同時，讀者也自然而然地被席慕蓉引領到她重建的草原世界。