More than Alive

This full-length novel is another masterpiece of Yan Zhen after the Azure Water, with an aim to expose the college corruption and the intellectuals' falling for fame in China. The students with best achievements in colleges are ignorant and incompetent. They are very astute in seizing every opportunity to set up their interpersonal relation. But Yan Zhen exposes more than that. He gives a vivid lives of some intellectuals like "e;I"e; who are consciously ambitious but helpless within the realistic society. Even though they submit to the reality, they are still yearning for the independent personalities. "e;I"e; have been following the steps of Cao Xueqin, who suffered a lot but never bowed to the secularity, creating a monumental work - Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone). With dreams in mind, their spirit will never die.