Books
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2017 · Literary FictionThe Imperial City is Like the Sea
王城如海Set against the smog-blanketed sprawl of contemporary Beijing, returned avant-garde theater director Yu Songpo sparks a public firestorm with his provocative new play, The Urban Revelation. When an estranged street wanderer and the family of his domestic worker cross his path, an old secret from a past medical misdiagnosis resurfaces, threatening to unravel his household. Xu Zechen crafts a nuanced panoramic inquiry into urban alienation, hidden guilt, and moral responsibility across social classes in modern China.
2018 · Historical Fiction, Historical SagaNorthward
北上Interweaving a 1901 voyage along the Grand Canal by an Italian explorer with a modern-day documentary quest, this multi-generational epic chronicles the cultural memory, industrial shifts, and interconnected lives sustained along China's historic waterway.