After writing Daughter's Wine, Baby, and Ends of the Earth, Chien Chen returned to writing about her observations on urban life, a genre of essay that she had temporarily put aside.
歷經《女兒紅》、《紅嬰仔》、《天涯海角》，簡媜回到先前停筆的城市觀察主題，便如脫胎換骨。