Lens

I love both Chinese classical literature and Western classics — the kinds of books and films that have survived time, history.

Authors I Return To

Chinese

Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) ⸱ Bei Dao (北岛) ⸱ Jin Yong (金庸 / Louis Cha) ⸱ Sanmao (三毛) ⸱ Wang Xiaobo (王小波) ⸱ Wang Guowei (王国维) ⸱ Zhou Guoping (周国平) ⸱ Jia Pingwa (贾平凹) ⸱ Li Peifu (李佩甫) ⸱ Long Yingtai (龙应台)

International

Miguel de Cervantes ∘ Jane Austen ∘ Haruki Murakami ∘ Franz Kafka ∘ George Orwell ∘ Oscar Wilde ∘ Ernest Hemingway ∘ Kahlil Gibran ∘ Bertrand Russell ∘ Milan Kundera ∘ Gabriel García Márquez ∘ Khaled Hosseini ∘ Italo Calvino ∘ William Faulkner

Books That Stay With Me

• The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini • 1984 — George Orwell • One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez • The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino • The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera • Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin

Films I Carry With Me

From the many films I’ve watched, a small slection.

The Sixth Sense (1999) • Modern Times (1936) • The Terminal (2004) • Saving Private Ryan (1998) • About Time (2013) • Pulp Fiction (1994) • Scent of a Woman (1992) • The Imitation Game (2014) • Green Book (2018) • The Sound of Music (1965) • Big Fish (2003) • Yi Yi (一一) (2000) • Interstellar (2014) • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) • Eat Drink Man Woman (饮食男女) (1994) • Mary and Max (2009) • Braveheart (1995) • Identity (2003) • Shutter Island (2010) • Edward Scissorhands (1990)