Hi,xx,

Thanks for your mail. It's great that you still harbour some strong interests in translating something of  the present day Chinese literature. But have you heard the remarks or  “smear ” as was called by some people , made by the German sinologist Gu Bin(what's his German name ?) that contemporary Chinese literature are almost trash? You don’t mind translating some of them if  heard about it?

     Most of these writers are really a sorry lot  as they live off their writings. They have to publish to live. But  they are damnably confined by the human condition they are reduced to and so they can't write anything which is really worthy.

     I don't blame them , I simply share their pathetic existence ; but I really don't want to read what they write and that's why I can't make any worthy suggestions as to which novel is recommended for translation into Germany, for I don't read anything they write.....