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challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.5
I read an interview that said this author is the best livig writer to read if one wants to understand modern China, so I checked out a couple of his books. I found this book very skillfully-written but slow and hard to connect to. there are some striking philosophical asides throughout that reveal the author's wisdom and deep thinking; I specifically remember passages about greeting death like a friend instead of as an enemy, life (expansive) vs living (rote), and fate (tragedy) vs mortal causality (natural).
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