Books

Fiction

October 2018 - October 2023

Selected Stories by Xuemo

A collection of seven wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.

by Xuemo

Selected Stories by Xue Mo is a collection of four wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.The stories features the desert, camels, dholes, yellow sand and a great number of other elements typical in the life of western China,and expressing the themes of love, faith, eternity, life and death, and depicting the souls of the farmers of western China stubbornly arise from pains and suffering.The book is a bridge to the literature world of the novels by the author Xuemo,fitting for reading in fragmented time. Selected Stories by Xue Mo has been translated into more than twenty different languages until now.

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Fiction

September 2018 - September 2023

Desert Hunters

a great fable written by the author Xuemo in a plain and realistic style

by Xuemo

Desert Hunters Xuemo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Hunters is a great fable written by the author Xuemo . This is what is different from Desert Rites.In Desert Hunters, every section is a vivid scene of life,and every chapter is a grand depiction of the society；It forms an epic historical picture in the whole work .There are more than 50 characters, and depicts more than 20 species of animals in the book features.The stories of the book revolve around a place called the Pig Belly Well.All people and all life in the area, including wolves and sheep, falcons and rabbits, birds and bugs, foxes and rats, rely on this water well for survival. Images of all figures demonstrated fierceness and kindness,suffering and joy, helplessness and endurance,nature and feud, greed and strife.all scenes seem to be distant but familiar, vast but subtle. Every character, every animal seems to be the mouth of God in these book,telling stories about their own transgressions and the following aftermath.Through layers and layers of conflicts between humans and animals, humans and nature, and humans for their own fate,the book tells us that tragedies of humanity are rooted in greed, hatred, and ignorance.Those who transgress, those who break the laws of nature, are bound to be punished, bound to suffer in the dessert of the soul,and bound to become a prey that is being hunted on the hunting field of the soul. It is like the coronavirus spreading around the world,ruthlessly attacking everybody around us,paralyzing industries and forcing countries into long-term lock down, spreading fear and anxiety among all people.However, through the actions of the heroes and heroines, the book also tells us how to create a harmonious conservation between people and their inner selves, between different people, and between human and nature. The following people will like this book: those who love animals and those who wonder about how to create balance between human and nature, how to make a living ,and how to form a harmonious conservation between people’s life and their own inner world .

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Curses of Xixia Dynasty

A fiction written with hallucinatory realism, merging folk tales, customs,faith, history and the contemporary

by Xuemo

Curses of Xixia Dynasty is a fiction written with hallucinatory realism, merging folk tales, customs, faith, history and the contemporary,and it has a deep discussion about some enduring themes related to life and death, light and dark, as well as impermanence and eternality. In the book, it shows lots of little-know human landscape from Western China with its interpretations and deductions about some ancient manuscripts, which is dig from the Vajra Yogini Cave, a mysterious grotto in Xixia Dynasty. Meanwhile, it is narrated from two main clues.One refers to the fierce fighting between Vajar Clan and Bright King Clan, and the other is relevant to the different spiritual quest among three protagonists named Qiong, A Jia, and Snow Feather. It’s noted that the book is full of innovation and exploration in its forms, contents,and spirits, which manifests the author’s extraordinary imagination and great narrative power.

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September 2017 - September 2022

Love Letters From the Goddness

36 Letters From The Holy Monk and Spirit Woman

by Xuemo

Love Letters From the Goddess is a collection of 36 love letters between Tibetan holy monk Khyungpo Naljor and the abdicated Nepalese spirit female Sharwadi in the novel .The Holy Monk and the Spirit Woman.Since these letters are written sincerely and frankly, you are sure to have a deep understanding of their love overall and even identify with the protagonist with every word content and sentences worthy of sperm.It is filled with abundant dialogues between characters and richdetails about characters’ spiritual quests.It not only contains secret guidance for people to transcend worldliness to attain self realization,but also elaborates the pitfalls that one might fall into when faced with tough choices as well as effective methods to deal with them. You will thereby understand that a great person, a hero, is never born to be an unusually blessed extraordinary person,but rather a person with flesh and blood and emotions.Each chapter has different stories, as well as different symbolic meanings,which not only vividly shows how a pilgrim went through his journey to seek enlightenment,but also provides a good example for those who leave their hometown to search for a home for their souls.With this book, you will have the code to understand your.。,and possessing a wisdom to face your life’s hardship gracefully.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2018 - May 2023

The World Is a Reflection of the Mind

It is a dialogue between classical Chinese wisdom and the restless, anxious, and disoriented souls of modern people

by Xuemo

This book is a must-read, which can be viewed as a series of yoga lessons for the mind.It is a dialogue between classical Chinese wisdom and the restless, anxious, and disoriented souls of modern people.It is also a vital book that explains to people why they are suffering from pain and anxiety. It is neither a so-called ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’nor a book filled theories and theoretical jargon.It does not aim to help you attain temporary happiness.Instead, with its simple insight of wisdom,it makes you understand that none of the problems that you encounter originate from other people, but instead they are rooted in your own mind. The book has a power to penetrate illusions and to directly touch your true heart. It provides modern people with secret methods for handling all sorts of situations in life. It receives immense popularity among readers at home and abroad, especially those who are in the fields of medicine and education.At the Frankfort Book Fair last year,Many people bought the book decisively because of the profound and interesting title.

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May 2017 - May 2022

White Tiger Pass

The miserable life and self-redemption of three rural women

by Xuemo

White Tiger Pass revolves around the miserable experiences of three young village women, Lanlan, Ying’er, and Yue’er, as they navigate life with its ups and downs, joys and sorrows, loves and hatreds. This staggering story offers a lifelike portrayal of the pains and hardships faced by Chinese peasants especially women amidst the social changes. The writing of survival suffering and tenacious vitality in this naturalist book features rich details, authentic experiences and compact structure, and examines fundamental themes such as life and death, love and eternity.

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October 2018 - October 2023

The Holy Monk and the Spirit Woman

The Great Achiever in the Himalayas or The Pilgrims' Song

by Xuemo

The Holy Monk and the Spirit Woman Xuemo translated by J.C.Cleary. The hero of this novel is based on Khyungpo Naljor, one of the greatest figures in Tibetan history.He is praised as ‘The great achiever in the Himalayas’,Therefore, the book can also be called the Pilgrims' Song. Written in an magical realist style,the novel is a biographic story of a great achiever after going through a long journey to find authentic selves and towards enlightenment. It is full of mystery beyond the mundane but deeply rooted in the worldly life.From the perspective of historical and cultural research,the book may have filled in a blank in a specific historical period of Himalayan culture and the interaction between cultures of China, Nepal and India. The book is very different from biographies that is popular nowadays.It is filled with abundant dialogues between characters and rich details about characters’ spiritual quests.It not only contains secret guidance for people to transcend worldliness to attain self realization,but also elaborates the pitfalls that one might fall into when faced with tough choices as well as effective methods to deal with them.You will thereby understand that a great person, a hero, is never born to be an unusually blessed extraordinary person,but rather a person with flesh and blood and emotions.Each chapter has different stories, as well as different symbolic meanings,which not only vividly shows how a pilgrim went through his journey to seek enlightenment,but also provides a good example for those who leave their hometown to search for a home for their souls.With this book, you will have the code to understand your innermost soul,and possessing a wisdom to face your life’s hardship gracefully. The following people will like this book:those who yearn for distant places and love pilgrimage,those who are interested in foreign cultures, religions, and philosophy.and those who find themselves lost in life, wanting to improve and perfect themselves.In addition, it is also a great book to learn about the history of the Shangpa lineage as an example of the treasures of Chinese culture.Now the book has been published in English, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.

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February 2017 - February 2022

Laozi's true thoughts-Tome Ⅰ

Interpreting China's most famous classic work of philosophy—the Tao Te Ching,explaining the truth of the universe and the secret to attain enlightenment

by Xuemo

Laozi's true thoughts-Tome Ⅰ translated by Wolfgang Kubin Rooted in Eastern philosophy,integrating both historical and modern stories from the east and west,with an emphasis on self-improvement,the book interprets China's most famous classic work of philosophy—the Tao Te Ching,explaining the truth of the universe and the secret to attain enlightenment,and revealing why the modern society is filled with mental confusions and afflictions.The book aims to tell us how to apply the wisdom in the Tao Te Ching to deal with our mental problems,and to improve our quality of life.It aims to tell us how to transform theory into a way of daiy life.so as to elevate our souls to a higher level.Each chapter conveys a different aspect of wisdom that how we should face the world calmly and confidently.When the book was published in China, it immediately received immense popularity,reaching the top or ranking high on the best-selling lists of many major book fairs and popular websites. It is a wisdom book that can resonate with people's life, work, family, interpersonal relationship and growth. This book has been translated into German by the famous sinologist Wolfgang Kubin.

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Fiction

April 2015

The Fox Worshiping the Moon

Xue Mo‘s Poems for Love or for Self-Enlightenment

by Xuemo

This is the f irst collection of Xue mo’s poems with its strong rhythmic, deep philosophic, and elegant nature, and it is highly regarded as one of the most meaningful and touching poetry in contemporaryChinese literature. At the beginningof the book, the author expresses a sincere human yearning for love,freedom, and kindness with his profoundly moving and beautiful verses. Then, written in the strikingly imaginary language, he presents a vivid picture about what an ordinary person has gone through in his mind when he is on the path to spiritual enlightenment, and thereby encourages readers’ musings and reflection. It ’s wonderful that in the last part he puts a simple but profound interpretation on The Diamond Sutra, which gives viewers unique spiritual and aesthetic satisfaction. Meanwhile, herein lies the poet’s luxuriant imagery and a series of themes such as life and death, human and nature, eternity and transient, and so on. Thus, it’s thought that the book is less a collection of poetry than a lighthouse guiding the direction in our life journey.

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August 2016

The Essence of Mahamudra

Mind meditation from oriental culture

by Xuemo

In recent years, many books have been constantly published abroad on the topic of mahamudra or mind meditation. This book is different in the systematic way it distills the essence of the author's researches and practice over many years on traditional mahamuda to construct a complete and graded path of practice towards the awakening to our inherent wisdom.By reading the book, you will not only understand the philosophical theories of this world-transcending wisdom and its clear lineage , but also be informed of a step-by-step precise description of the ways to practice and the effective solution to every typical problem that arises in different stages. Therefore, for those who want to know about the mahamudra culture or eager to achieve spiritual awakening, it is really a wonderful book that can't be missed. It’s noted that this book has been translated into English by J.C.Cleary, Doctor of Sinology and Culture at Harward University, and will be published soon

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The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night

The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road

by Xuemo

The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road is a novel based on the interview between a western female sinologist and a writer from Western China,which still sets against the same backdrop of China’s west as many of Xue Mo’s works. As the two’s communications go on and on in the book, it not only presents readers with nineteen vivid and wonderful stories about men,women and animals living in the western provinces of China, but also explores their inner qualities and explains in great detail why their fate is so different from each other.Thus, the book is thought to be the one that can not only make you thoroughly understand the west of China , but also may enable you to read your own destiny.

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January 2020

Mother Wolf Gray

Mother Wolf Gray is one of the animal stories written by Xuemo. It was adapted from a story line about wolves in the novel Desert Hunters. After one of her cubs was mistakenly killed by someone who, ironically, was tasked to stop poachers, the mother wolf named Gray took revenge towards humans, which also set in motion a series of events involving both the poachers and those took the mission to stop the poachers. A game of survival between different groups of humans and different species of animals had thus begun, testing the both the humanity and animal nature of all those that are involved ... Filled with both love and suspense, the story is both entertaining and educational, making is an excellent story for children to read.

by XueMo

Mother Wolf Gray is one of the animal stories written by Xuemo. It was adapted from a story line about wolves in the novel Desert Hunters. After one of her cubs was mistakenly killed by someone who, ironically, was tasked to stop poachers, the mother wolf named Gray took revenge towards humans, which also set in motion a series of events involving both the poachers and those took the mission to stop the poachers. A game of survival between different groups of humans and different species of animals had thus begun, testing the both the humanity and animal nature of all those that are involved ... The author empploys a number of images in the book ,such as Grassland,Desert Wolf baby,Desolate,Old dog,Pork tripe well,Gun,Hunters,Fighting sheep,Black lamb Jackal son,Crazy Camel,Yellow sheep,Ancient city wall,Sheep eat wolves and so on Filled with both love and suspense, the story is both entertaining and educational, making is an excellent story for children to read.

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November 2019

SuoSalang

The journey of a young goddess trying to save her dying mother and dying planet.

by XueMo

Suosalang is an long epic poem composed by Xuemo. With a length of nearly 100,000 lines totaling over 2 million Chinese characters, Suosalang recounts the journey of a young goddess trying to save her dying mother and dying planet. Destruction is slowly approaching as the planet is lost in overindulgence and overdevelopment. Five champions tasked to save their home world chose to be reincarnated on a distant planet known as Earth. In human forms, they eventually lost themselves and forgot their mission. In order to save her mother as well as her home planet, a brave and intelligent young goddess followed the five champions to Earth. Incarnated in a human form, she set out to awaken the champions from their earthly amnesia. During this process, she attained self-completion and became the brilliant light that lead others to enlightenment ... The journey of the goddess and the five champions was filled with challenges and hardship. They went through the tests of romantic entanglements, life and an death, fame and fortune, demons, and other evil forces, but eventually, they found the eternity that they are determined to find. It is known that, despite having a long and vibrant literary history, the Han Chinese (the ethnic group constituting the majority of the Chinese population) do not seem to have composed any epics like many other cultures did at the dawn of their histories—like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, or the Tibetan epic King Gesar—or at some later time—like Dante’s Devine Comedy. Hence, Suosalang is sometimes praised as the first epic of the Han Chinese people. Suosalang touches on such enduring themes as the choices between good and evil, love and faith, excellence and mediocrity, war and piece, ego and universal love, and many more. Through the journey of the characters, you may see the wisdom that may guide you through tough choices like these in your own life. Suosalang is a masterpiece that you might not want to miss.

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Fiction

September 2018 - September 2023

Desert Rites

A realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.

by Xue mo

Desert Rites XueMo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality. The whole book was written in a Tolstoy-like style,Focusing on vividly depicting the characters’psychological life.It faithfully chronicled a reforming era and one year’s life of a farmer family in western China.For example,faced with life’s hardship,faced with love that is unlikely to come to fruition,Lingguang, the hero of the book, witnessed a family’s history of suffering,and witnessed the souls of a Generation who were in hopeless silence and helpless struggle on the land of western China. Finally, under the helpless trace,Lingguang chose to leave his hometown,heading towards the solitude in mind that no one ever know.The whole novel portrays human nature in ordinary life, and is a representative work of realism in contemporary Chinese literature that faithfully records the customs and cultures of western China. Untill now,five different publishers have published different versions of Desert Rites in China . The following people will like this book:Those who want to know what the society and people’s life were actually like in 1970s China,and those who want to break the “magical spell” of life to elevate their life to a higher level.

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Selected Stories by Xue Mo(English Edition)

by Xue Mo

Selected Stories by Xue Mo includes 4 short stories: Old Man Xinjiang, The Women, The Camels And The Dholes, Beauty and The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night. Old Man Xinjiang tells the story of a poor, rough old man named Xinjiang, who lived a sacrificial life for his ex-wife. The Women, The Camels And The Dholes describes two rural married women walked away from home together in order to escape family abuse. They entered into desert to find a new opportunity for their lives. In the desert, they fought against dholes and thirst and almost died for several times. Beauty depicts a woman named Beauty gave up love in the countryside and worked in the city to lead a better life.Being cheated and infected with STD, she unfortunately died in the end. The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of Night tells the story that when facing famine, people would eat anyone include their relatives.The short story Old Man Xinjiang was translated by famous British sinologist Nicky Harman and published on Guardian in England on April 11th, 2012.

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The Holy Monk and the Spirit Woman (English Edition)

by Xue Mo

As an important work of the author Xue Mo's “Desert Series”, it is concerned with the path of belief realization of Qiongbolangjue.It is an epic about spiritual search, a dialogue spanning a millennium and a path of realization and self-surpassing. The translator of this book is J.C.Cleary, who was born in California in 1949 and graduated from Harvard University. He is a reputed sinologist and translator with doctorates in East Asian Languages andCivilizations and in Law.

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Fiction

September 2018

Desert Rites (English Edition)

by Xue Mo

Desert Rites is the first of a three volume “Desert Series,” set in China’s far West Gansu Province. The series is set in the late twentieth century. Residents in China’s major cities and the coastal provinces are enjoying newfound prosperity after a decade of economic growth, but not the impoverished villagers of Liangzhou. They must eke out a living by training hawks to catch rabbits, hunting foxes for their pelts, and squeezing out meager wheat harvests from largely barren, sandy land. The lives and deaths of the village characters are related in the trials of surviving in this neglected part of China. Two fathers will kill their own children, a young man will die of cancer, a protest against heavy taxes and fees will be staged with no result, and two married women will have extramarital affairs. The desert gives these people life; it also brings death and hardship. In hospitable conditions compounded by a relentless government tax system comprise the daily realities of the villagers, who often turn to shamans to lessen their suffering and hope in vain to mitigate their problems. Xue Mo writes with compassion and produces a vivid picture of village life in the desert.

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Desert Hunters (English Edition)

by Xue Mo

Revolving around a well in the desert, this novel focuses on the dispute between environmental protection and poaching. The main story line is supplemented by a series of daily life situations particular to the desert in the western region. The English edition is translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.

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A collection of seven wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.

by Xuemo

a great fable written by the author Xuemo in a plain and realistic style

by Xuemo

A fiction written with hallucinatory realism, merging folk tales, customs,faith, history and the contemporary

by Xuemo

36 Letters From The Holy Monk and Spirit Woman

by Xuemo

It is a dialogue between classical Chinese wisdom and the restless, anxious, and disoriented souls of modern people

by Xuemo

The miserable life and self-redemption of three rural women

by Xuemo

The Great Achiever in the Himalayas or The Pilgrims' Song

by Xuemo

Interpreting China's most famous classic work of philosophy—the Tao Te Ching,explaining the truth of the universe and the secret to attain enlightenment

by Xuemo

Xue Mo‘s Poems for Love or for Self-Enlightenment

by Xuemo

Mind meditation from oriental culture

by Xuemo

The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road

by Xuemo

by XueMo

The journey of a young goddess trying to save her dying mother and dying planet.

by XueMo

A realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.

by Xue mo

by Xue Mo

by Xue Mo

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