This is an essay of European history and culture as well as a reference book for travelling in depth. The writer goes straight to his fields of dream beginning from Beijing with simple travelling bag. It connects 10 European cities based on historical sequence, expounding historical European civilization. These cities represent civilized centers in different historical stages. Legend and history are flowing in this book with the scroll of European civilization unfolding little by little.
Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hăo Jǐngfāng), is a Chinese science fiction writer. Hao Jingfang was born in 1984, graduated in physics and gained her PhD in economics at Tsinghua University in 2013. She has been working since with the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), where she acts as Deputy Director of Research Department I. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards. Hao Jingfang was awarded the First Prize in the New Concept Writing Competition (2002). Her fiction has appeared in various publications, including Mengya, Science Fiction World and ZUI Found. She has published two full-length novels, Wandering Maearth and Return to Charon; a book of cultural essarys, Europe in Time; and the short story collection, Star Travellers.