The title I've settled on for this book is a bit abstract, but as the title suggests, it touches both sides of the world.One side is the city, the other side is the country, which is a one-sided and simple way to arrange the world.Let's talk about the rural part first.Careful readers can find that most of the stories use maple and poplar as the background place name, which seems to be a deliberate imitation of Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha" county.In these works, I imagined a village called Fengyangshu. Many friends think that this is an expression of "nostalgia" and "homecoming".The maple and poplar village may have the shadow of my ancestors' residence, but for me it is a floating shadow that is difficult to reproduce.I use my method to pick up the fragmented history and stitch it together. This is a very good process of novel creation. In this process, I feel the pulse of my ancestors and my hometown. will see where they belong.Writing these novels was a spiritual "homecoming" for me, as some commentators have said.

"The Escape in 1934" is the first novella in my life, written in the autumn and winter of 1986.Now readers have a lot of dissatisfaction, but it has a special meaning to me. Now let’s talk about the other side of the world. These novels about urban life, three short stories including “Burn” were new works in 1992, and four novellas including “Calm Like Water” were written in 1987 or 1988.Here are some semi-popular novels about adolescence, loneliness, confusion, love, loss, finding.The reason why I call myself "semi-popular" is because these works have the above-mentioned popular and popular story clues and cores, and it is these works that gained me a wider audience at first.

The shadow of my real personal life floats in these urban youths, both real and illusory. Through it, I made some personal life records, about youth and dreams, about confusion and search, about myself, my friends and Strange youths passing by on the city streets.I included these two types of works, just like a gardener planted two different plants in a garden, hoping that they would look harmonious and rich.People live on both sides of the world, city or country. Speaking of myself, my blood is on the country side, but my body is on the city side.