Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony...

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she’ll always remain under a man’s thumb.

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with...