Nanfang Shuo says that maybe you should think about it in this way: "The record of my life will have a branch that is dry and withered. Its death is my fate today. But it is also the beginning of life and the beginning of an understanding of China."
南方朔說，或許你可以這樣想，「我的生命志裡曾有一個枯死的枝幹，它的枯死是我今日的命運，它是生命的開始，也是認識中國的開始」。