Seeing China through the novel My other starting point was that compared with the former Chinese literary tradition of "sympathy for the time and concern for the nation," I was promoting an "orientation away from tears and towards more differentiated emotions."
由小說看中國另外一個出發點是，相對於過去中國「感時憂國」的文學傳統，我標榜的是「從淚水走向更多層次的感情取向」。