Blue Sky Green Sea and other stories

By Liu Sola
Translated by Martha Cheung
1993
xxv + 145 pages
ISBN 962-7255-12-2

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Liu Sola refuses to deal with serious subjects seriously. Or so it seems. Her wild casual style has a rebellious ring to it and her urbanite trend-setting protagonists are particularly appealing to China's younger generation. Behind the insistent frivolity and ephemeral tone, however, lie questions concerning the nature of art and the self-realization of the artist.

A woman of many talents, Liu Sola is a singer, composer and actress as well as a writer. She left China in 1988 and now resides abroad.

'Ms Liu's stories focus on art and artists, but they are really stories about individuals and individualism.'

—South China Morning Post