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"Tide Chart" Author: Lin Zhao Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
"Tide Chart" Author: Lin Zhao Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This is truly a long-awaited southern narrative, a mirage that should have been revealed by the Cantonese long ago. I need to reread it again and again to see how Lin Zhao unleashed her unbridled imagination and salvaged the watercolor-like afterimage of the 19th-century maritime empire from the corpses of boats in the mud layer at the bottom of the Pearl River.
——Leung Man-tao
The illusion contains the full body of nature, the dialect contains the rich consciousness of the nation, and with meticulous fictional skills, Lin Zhao depicts the strange charm of a special time and space.
——Huang Dehai
In the 1820s, Scottish naturalist H, whose origins were unknown, traveled the world and landed in Guangzhou. He encountered a giant female frog in the local reed forest and successfully trapped it and raised it in the Goodview Garden in Macau. From then on, strange caged animals, new knowledge of the world, and the lives of all living things entered the frog's life in a mixed way of joy and sorrow. On the eve of the Opium War, H went bankrupt and committed suicide. The Goodview Garden disappeared like a dream, and the frog would also experience the test of life and death.
This magical story rooted in the local customs of Lingnan, from the floating people on the Pearl River to the Thirteen Factories in Guangzhou, a brief stop at the Treasure Garden in Macau, and then explores the rivers and oceans where all things have spirits. East and West meet here, and utopias of all sizes collide with each other. It is a fascinating feast tour through the modern world.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Lin Zhao was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong in 1984. Her first novel, Liuxi, was selected as a finalist for Douban Reading's annual Chinese literature and the third Blancpain Utopia Literature Award. In 2021, she won the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the Southern Literature Festival for Liuxi. This book is her second novel, first published in the fifth issue of Harvest Literary Magazine in 2021.