What kind of book is "I Love Beijing Buses"?

"I Love Beijing Buses" is a collection of stories composed of more than 140 individual sketches. It is one of the "essay-style novels" unique to Qi Yimin (Qi Tianda). The book uses many types of "transportation vehicles" (such as buses, subways, cars, airplanes, ships, elevators, sedans, human legs, etc.) as a platform, and is based on the author's work from December 2003 to February 2005. Using the major and minor incidents experienced and witnessed on various means of transportation in Beijing as clues, the author cleverly combines the author's "first half of life" with "raw materials" such as what he sees, hears, and hearsay in real traffic, trying to create a novel based on human beings. "Mobile tool" is the "protagonist"'s "Beijing-flavored sketch" and independent world view and value system. This is undoubtedly an unprecedented whimsy and writing attempt. In the writing process, the author is "writing after the story" - when the work is started, all the subsequent "plots" have not yet appeared, and all that is recorded in the book is the author's "writing"

After that It is a true story that happened over many years, so this kind of writing requires the author to have a very special ability to collect and connect stories. More than 140 interesting passages in the book are divided into chapters, which can be read individually. At the same time, there is a hidden lead of the "vehicle" that is constantly changing and interpreting from beginning to end, as if it were a book. More than 140 candied haws, "not one less", "string" the author's own destiny, the destiny of the city of Beijing, China's national destiny and the destiny of all mankind on a bamboo, forming a picture that includes daily life. It is a panoramic picture of Beijing's contemporary city

which contains the real joys, sorrows and joys of commuting people and contains profound rational static reflection. This book is one of the few literary works since Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi" that uses "transportation" as "props" and the capital Beijing as the stage.