The collection includes fifteen novels and short stories written at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century. They are written by ten writers from the southern Chinese province of Guizhou and vividly demonstrate the amazing diversity, as well as the ethnocultural flavor of modern Chinese literature. Fascinating stories about life in Guizhou, written by Ouyang Qiansen, Wang Hua, Xie Ting, He Wen and others, open the reader's inner the world of ordinary Chinese, their ideas about happiness and mental confusion from the collision of traditional values with the realities of globalization and modernization, inexorably penetrating into the farthest corners of China and changing the archaic way of life of the inhabitants of the Chinese hinterland.