Wondering in Chengdu

by Su Wei

As more and more people began to try to travel slow, when more and more people want to live in a place which can be close to local people to this city, when traveling from idling around evolved into leisure experience, sloshing series of tourism guide also came into being. It can be said that the market has spawned a book like this; the young audience demanded such a book, authors and editors feel that a book was born. The first book of the series chose the city of Chengdu which has many words to descbribe.

223 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2013

About the author

Like many Chinese writers of his generation, Su Wei spent his teenage years being “re-educated” through farm labor in the countryside, working for ten years on a rubber plantation in the mountains of tropical Hainan Island. He is known for his nonfiction essays as well as for his highly imaginative novels, which are seen as unique in their treatment of the Cultural Revolution. He left China in 1989, and since 1997 he has taught Chinese language and literature at Yale University. The Invisible Valley is his first book to be translated into English.