Although the aesthetic beauty of western essays is commonly conveyed through exotic fascination, it has been abandoned in the newly published anthology of essays A Place Called Cold Lake by Gan Jianhua. It reveals the landscape through the descriptions of aboriginal nature, society and human life, and presents us the original nature of the west by narrating the true stories. The double identity of journalist and writer makes him transform essay styled journal into journalistic essay, and incorporate the geographical terms and literary anecdotes into the modular e...
