In January 2010, a newspaper reportedly with the largest circulation teamed up with a veteran education publication to conduct an opinion poll among young students across the countrys provinces, asking

  "Who is your favorite contemporary Chinese writer." Because young people have limited knowledge, I was surprisingly chosen as the first name.

  At the awards ceremony, I got

  "The Champion Trophy" is this statue. The sculptor was a very accomplished art professor, Mr. Qian Wei, but he has never seen me to this day, and he carved it out just based on the photos in the book.

  Never met before, carved so well, really admirable. However, he carved me thin. This is easy to handle, from that day on, I exercised and shaped my body according to the statues standard.

  As a result, after some time, I have become just like the statue. This matter involves many topics.

  For example, the relationship between art and objects, the mutual substitution of subject and object, the possibility of human self-transformation, etc.

  Found it quite interesting, so I put it on the title page as a keepsake. (Autumn Rains note)