Liu wei xing, ta de liu wang shi wo de liu lang / Liu Weixing: Her Exile is Mine

Taipei: Qi dong wen hua, 2011. First Printing. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo, wraps in slipcase, about fine. 230 pp, illlustrated. In Chinese. A translation of the blurb on the slipcase: "In 1939, Qu Xiaowei's grandmother Xu Yun was just a 21-year-old girl from Shanghai. Her fiancé had already retreated to Chongqing. At this time, Shanghai was in danger, so she and another girl crossed the sea and took a ferry from Vietnam to Yunnan. Looking for a fiancé in Sichuan... After more than 70 years, Qu Xiaowei wants to retrace the route of her grandmother's escape, and re-taste her grandmother's hometown dishes, which may be what her grandmother must do on her birthday every year. Simmered noodles with shredded pork and pickled vegetables, or perhaps a homemade pickled cucumber. Therefore, she went to participate in the Cloud Gate Homeless Project. In the interview room, Teacher Lin Huaimin said to her: "If you go, you will be free and don't think about anything." But she thought it was ridiculous, "A man full of thoughts. Man, how come you don't want anything?" Before she left, Qu Xiaowei was a documentary director. When she left, she knew that she was about to enter another large-scale editing and post-production period: it was a story about her grandmother, the origin of her family, and her pursuit of the dead. The material for this editing is not video tapes or archives, but memory, history and taste. So she told herself, go on her way, to find more splicing software for stories to put in her head, hoping that one day she will be able to express this emotion.