Musong

Musong (Chinese: 目送; pinyin: Mùsòng; lit.: 'Seeing off'), translated as Watching You Go in English,[1] is a collection of 74 prose pieces written by Lung Ying-tai, published in October 2009. The stories are about the relationships between Lung's family members; her father's death, her mother's aging, her children leaving, her friends' concerns for her, and working with her siblings.

Musong cover art.

This book's style is different from the critical and incisive style of Lung's other book, Big River, Big Sea. In contrast, Musong's style is gentle and lyrical. The autobiographical stories narrate Lung's failures, weakness, depression and loss, rather than present persuasive argument or describe historical occurrences.

Critical reception

Wuzhong Zhou said: “...the core of Lung Ying-Tai's Musong is mercy. The feelings of mercy are reflected in every character in the book and flowing between the lines.”[2]

“Lung Ying-Tai said this book is written for her father, mother, and siblings. Some of the reviewers suppose that, this book is not just written for Lung's generation, it also was written to the previous (born in the 1970s and 1980s) generation and the current generation’s(born in the 2000s and 2010s) people. In this book, the child on his impending leeway to success, the mother who was almost fatally ill and the woman who stays behind in their back to watching them go--(and also the author), they are all from the various generations and they have emotions and internal conflicts, but they just express differently. Lung used her smoothly written style to wrote down three generation’s people’s emotions and lonely or shallow life, that can let all the readers from different generations to realize that; all the remorse and unwillingness is just part of the life, all we can do is moving on and look forward, to use the "now" to fill the emptiness and trauma, and reconciliation with life with love and let go.”[3]

gollark: Not *just* factories, you need all the buildings in that list (with scale/density options) and more.
gollark: "Flat" would just be a "home" in a high-density/high-size thing.
gollark: You should probably have size and density things actually.
gollark: Okay, more: barn, farm, greenhouse, shed, museum, arena of some kind, city hall (or other governance building), embassy, post office, granary, bunker, missile launch facility, airport, taxi station, shipyard, and gym.
gollark: Okay then. Buildings which could exist: house, office, shop, mall, factory, mine, school, police station, SCP containment warehouse, regular warehouse, bus station, bus *stop* (sort of a building), underground train network stop, non-underground train network station, fire station, fire removal station, power plant, apiary, sewage treatment facility, garbage dump, garbage incinerator™, hospital, clinic (small hospital), plaza, park (sort of building), data center, hotel, prison, retirement home, theater, retirement home, restaurant, cafe, bowling alley, car wash, self-storage facility, seaport, car repair place, car dealership, bookshop, library, scientific laboratory, bank, substation, *nuclear* power plant, university, radio/TV/whatever transmitter, cell tower, [more coming].You should probably have a mechanic so you can have, say, apartment buildings composed of multiple "houses", but more generalized.

References
  1. Ma, Yueh-lin (4 May 2018). "Biweekly Visits Are Half-Hearted Endeavor｜Culture｜2018-05-04｜CommonWealth Magazine". Commonwealth Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. "龙应台《目送》：一部慈悲之书_金羊网文化". culture.ycwb.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  3. People’s daily online
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