She had spent 12 years writing about giant pandas, she has her own way "talking" to each of them. For her, each of them has a name, and each of them is a friend, and people call her Sister Panda...
And this book of 12 years of hard work is called Panda Epics...
Published in 2008, Panda Epics immediately gained high praises from renowned writers, environmental specialists, panda protection scientists and general readers.
Beautifully written, combining science and arts, facts and philosophy, history and literature. Panda Epics is, as what Mr. Li Qing Wen, deputy secretary of the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) has concluded, powerful, vivid, and genuinely passionate. It is the first master piece exploring and explaining human - panda relationship, history and future.
Through 12 years of hard work, hundreds of interviews from 22 Panda reserves in China, Panda Epics is a book of more than 400 thousands Chinese words that covers the key events, developments and changelings of giant pandas, and more than 100 panda stories from prehistoric age till today.
Panda Epics presents us the human evolution, history and our relationship to nature, through the origin, evolutions and history of panda. An excellent story teller, the author, through each vivid stories, reminds us giant pandas through her eyes, each of them has a name, and each of them is a friend. The author's communications with pandas remind us human - panda -earth relationship that transcend species, are universal and timelessly intriguing. Panda Epics alerts us that often we discuss about how we should protect pandas, but often we forget from them what we can learn.
