The "lobster" AI application that has exploded across the Internet recently has become the focus of Tencent CEO Ma Huateng. "After the 'Lobster' application was launched at the beginning of this year, the industry quickly realized that in addition to the two major directions of chat robots on the ToC side and AI programming on the ToB side,
Recently, Taiwan's well-known female artist Yi Nengjing posted videos of her daily life on social platforms. She also shared her beauty secrets and maintenance manuals, and even openly admitted that she had undergone medical beauty treatments. This attracted countless netizens to watch and discuss her.
This time, Yi Nengjing also patiently explained her skin care process and some beauty secrets to the beauty-loving netizens. In the video, Yi Nengjing is seen sitting quietly in a mansion in Shanghai. The retro decoration is full of elegance. She is also very homely and looks like she has just taken a shower. Her hair is still wet and she is wearing pink pajamas. She appears without makeup and is very beautiful. This is also the most real version of her, standing in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window, showing off her beauty.
In the video, Yi Nengjing also took netizens to visit her dressing room. A super-tall multi-layered cabinet was half full of skin care products and cosmetics, many of which were samples she tried out. There were all kinds of brands, very rich, and of course she kept them neatly.
Immediately afterwards, Yi Nengjing came to the bathroom again. The sink was also filled with many skin care products. She introduced them happily, but this was really not suitable for ordinary people. After all, it cost too much money, and even some big brand skin care products cost tens of thousands of yuan.
In addition, Yi Nengjing also said that she can maintain such a good condition at the age of 54, not only by skin care products, but also by some medical beauty methods. For example, she has done photoelectric, water and other medical beauty methods before to help her better skin care.
It can be seen from this that it is no wonder that celebrities still take care of themselves like girls despite their age. These are not suitable for ordinary people. After all, whether it is medical beauty or skin care products, the prices they require are not affordable by ordinary people. However, the money spent on skin care has indeed allowed Yi Nengjing to achieve the effect of freezing her age. I still look forward to her sharing some civilian version of skin care tutorials!
"Shanghai, as the forefront of China's reform and opening up and an international metropolis that is deeply connected to the world, is taking the construction of the 'Five Centers' as a guide and making every effort to create a new highland for high-level opening up. The vast number of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as overseas Chinese at home and abroad, are a unique and valuable resource for the improvement of Shanghai's urban energy level, an important bridge link between China and the world, and an indispensable advantage in promoting high-quality development and expanding high-level opening up."
Recently, during the 2026 Shanghai Global Investment Promotion Conference and "Invest in Shanghai" event week, the "Gathering in Shanghai to Create the Future" cooperation and exchange meeting between Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese enterprises and Shanghai enterprises was successfully held. Wang Xiaohan, vice president of the Shanghai Overseas Friendship Association and director of the Municipal Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, made the above statement in his speech.
"Shanghai has new changes and new surprises every day, and is full of vitality and profound vitality." Pu Yapeng, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Commission, introduced at the exchange meeting that Shanghai's GDP will exceed 5.6 trillion yuan in 2025, ranking first among Chinese cities and fifth in the world. As China's largest economic center city, Shanghai has outstanding advantages in opening up to the outside world. From the development and opening of Pudong, to the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Lingang New Area, Hongqiao International Open Hub, and then to the Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone, Shanghai has always been at the forefront of China's reform and opening up, and has continued to deepen reform and continuously expand new market space.
From government-level policy empowerment and resource aggregation to a complete and mature industrial ecology and a world-class business environment, Shanghai is leveraging its multiple unique advantages to continue to attract compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to invest, develop, and share opportunities.
Empower
Currently, Shanghai has achieved multiple breakthroughs in its opening-up measures. Pu Yapeng introduced that Shanghai has completely abolished foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, effectively breaking through the barriers for foreign-invested enterprises to carry out value-added telecommunications, cell and gene therapy and other businesses, and successfully opening up new business channels such as bonded remanufacturing and bonded maintenance, creating a more open and convenient development environment for various market entities. As a new highland for global resource allocation, Shanghai's total foreign trade volume exceeds 1.6 trillion US dollars, ranking first in the world's ports, and its container throughput ranks first in the world for 16 consecutive years, providing solid support for enterprises to participate in global trade.
Overlooking the Shanghai Yangshan Port Phase IV unmanned terminal from the control tower. Xinhua News Agency data map
At the same time, Shanghai is also the first choice for multinational companies to invest. Pu Yapeng introduced that the cumulative actual use of foreign capital in Shanghai exceeds 380 billion US dollars, accounting for one-tenth of the country's total. It has gathered more than 1,000 regional headquarters of multinational companies, 600 foreign-funded R&D centers, and more than 80,000 foreign-funded enterprises are flourishing in Shanghai, forming a good ecology of high concentration and coordinated development of foreign-funded enterprises.
"Shanghai is also a city of science and technology that is full of innovation and vitality, with significant advantages in scientific and technological innovation, and the gathering of innovative entities is accelerating." Pu Yapeng said that the R&D investment intensity of Shanghai's entire society has reached 4.5%, ranking fifth in the world's "Best Science and Technology Clusters" for two consecutive years. In key areas such as life sciences, energy technology, ocean engineering, artificial intelligence, and photonic science, Shanghai has laid out and built a number of national important tools and major scientific and technological infrastructure to provide strong ecological support for scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Facing the future, Shanghai will continue to safeguard the development of enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan with its long-term policy planning and institutional innovation. At the exchange meeting, Hong Leong Galaxy Co., Ltd. of Singapore injected RMB 500 million into the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center Equity Investment Fund to support technology research and development and industrial implementation of Shanghai science and technology innovation enterprises. This capital injection has set a precedent for foreign investors to set up QFLP funds in their own names to participate in the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center, and has become a landmark case of foreign investment in Shanghai's science and technology innovation field.
As the first QFLP fund pilot city in the country, Shanghai has formed a mature policy system and efficient approval process. Yang Bin, President of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, introduced at the scene that the cooperation between Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund and Hong Leong Galaxy of Singapore only took 76 days from the determination of intention to the fund registration, and the approval process only took 12 working days, making it a demonstration sample for overseas capital to conveniently participate in Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation investment.
"China's science and technology innovation is shifting from model innovation to hard technology innovation. Investing in Shanghai's science and technology innovation is investing in the forefront of China's innovation." Yang Bin, president of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, said that Shanghai ranks at the forefront of the country in terms of policy maturity, efficiency of the approval process, and facilitation of cross-border capital flows, providing the best institutional guarantee for foreign capital to participate in science and technology innovation investment. At the same time, Shanghai gathers top scientific research institutes and high-end talents, has a complete industrial chain and rich application scenarios, and is a high-quality soil for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the development and growth of enterprises.
Deep cultivation
With policy empowerment and ecological support, many Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwanese enterprises have been deeply involved in Shanghai for many years, resonating and growing together with the city. They have become participants and promoters of Shanghai's high-quality development, and have also achieved leapfrog development in global layout with Shanghai's all-round empowerment.
Xie Chengrun, CEO of China National Biopharmaceuticals and Chairman of Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group, shared at the meeting that as a global investment partner of Shanghai and a world-class biopharmaceutical industry cluster partner, China Biopharmaceuticals has invested 1.8 billion yuan to build a global R&D headquarters in the Minhang South Hongqiao section of Shanghai, which will be officially opened in June 2026. At the same time, the Pudong Pharmaceuticals headquarters is also under planning and construction, forming a "dual-zone synergy" development pattern.
"Shanghai's biopharmaceutical full-chain innovation policies, innovative drug green channels, and top medical research resources have strengthened companies' determination to deploy in Shanghai." Xie Chengrun said that Shanghai is an important gathering place for international innovation resources and high-end talents, and is also the core base for China's biopharmaceuticals to promote innovative research and development and achieve industrial upgrading.
In terms of industrial ecological construction, Shanghai is accelerating the construction of a "2+3+6+6" modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the core, including accelerating the development of the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.
Pu Yapeng introduced at the exchange meeting that the scale of Shanghai's biopharmaceutical industry exceeds 140 billion US dollars, the manufacturing output value exceeds 29 billion US dollars, and there are more than 2,000 regulated biopharmaceutical companies. Eighteen of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 global medical device companies have their Chinese regional R&D or production headquarters in Shanghai, leading the world in industrial agglomeration.
Looking forward to the future layout in Shanghai, Xie Chengrun said that in 2024, the company's first innovative drug, Gsolexed Tablets, will be approved for marketing in Shanghai; in 2026, 13 blockbuster innovative drugs at different stages will be transferred to Shanghai for research and development. Relying on Shanghai's open platform advantages, the company has reached in-depth cooperation with international pharmaceutical companies such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck, and Sanofi. In 2026, relevant products will be launched and commercially cooperated in more than 50 international markets, moving towards a new level of global development.
Shanghai has also become an important automobile production base in China and even the world. Pu Yapeng said that the city has 9 complete vehicle companies and more than 600 core component companies. It is the city with the highest output of new energy vehicles and the most complete industrial chain in China. The Toyota Lexus pure electric vehicle project has landed in Shanghai, which fully demonstrates the high recognition of foreign-funded enterprises in Shanghai's automobile industry ecology.
Pu Yapeng took Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory as an example. The project has achieved the Shanghai speed of "starting construction, completing construction, putting into production, and delivering within the same year." The local supply rate of parts within a 4-hour drive around the factory exceeds 95%. The highly collaborative and highly concentrated industrial ecology has the world's top competitiveness. Behind this is the strong support of Shanghai's efficient and pragmatic government services and first-class business environment.
Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Visual China data map
In terms of optimizing the business environment, Shanghai has implemented more than 1,200 reform measures since 2018. Key enterprise services have covered more than 30,000 companies, and a total of 26,000 companies have been helped to solve various development needs, effectively allowing companies to operate with peace of mind and develop steadily in Shanghai.
Taiwan-funded enterprise USI also regards Shanghai as the core fulcrum of global development. Chen Changyi, director of ASE Investment Holdings and chairman of USI Electronics, introduced that USI Electronics was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Pudong, Shanghai. The company's global revenue will reach 60 billion yuan in 2025, nearly half of which will come from Shanghai. Currently, the company's flagship manufacturing base in Zhangjiang is making every effort to promote the construction of smart factories and continue to set new standards for smart manufacturing efficiency.
"The key to Shanghai becoming the core of the company's global layout lies in its complete industrial chain system, highly concentrated R&D talents, and stable and predictable business environment." Chen Changyi said that the industrial collaborative ecology formed between Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region provides full-chain support for high-end manufacturing; the company's R&D team of nearly a thousand engineers in Shanghai has become the core force of technological innovation; and the long-term and stable policy environment allows companies to continue to increase investment in R&D.
Talent is the core driving force for innovation and development, and Shanghai is continuing to provide a steady stream of key talents and platforms for the growth of cutting-edge industries. According to Pu Yapeng, currently, Shanghai’s higher education population is close to 10 million, more than 300,000 talents who have returned from overseas studies have started their own business and developed in Shanghai, and there are more than 180 academicians in the two academies of science and technology in Shanghai. 70% of the country’s civil aviation talents, 50% of 5G talents, 40% of integrated circuit talents and 33% of artificial intelligence talents are gathered in Shanghai. 69 universities and 120 national-level R&D institutions form a strong innovation matrix.
Chen Changyi also pointed out that the high-end manufacturing industry has the characteristics of high investment and long cycle, and relies more on long-term and stable manufacturing environment and institutional guarantees. The steady growth of enterprises in the city will also drive the upgrading of the entire industrial chain. If the leading enterprises are stable, the supply chain will be stable. "Our investment in Shanghai is not just an investment in a market, but also an investment in a future-oriented manufacturing standard."
As a Taiwanese businessman who has lived in Shanghai for 26 years, Chen Changyi said frankly that Shanghai's urban order, administrative efficiency, and mature and complete education and medical facilities have given enterprises and individuals a deep trust in this city. Enterprises not only deploy their core capabilities in Shanghai, but also make Shanghai their "home".
At the new starting point of the "15th Five-Year Plan", opening up on both sides of the Pujiang River is booming. The global capital, advanced technology and international vision brought by enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have injected continuous vitality into Shanghai's high-quality development. With its open and inclusive urban spirit, pragmatic and efficient government services, and complete and mature industrial system, Shanghai continues to become the preferred place for investment and business development by enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
The "lobster" AI application that has exploded across the Internet recently has become the focus of Tencent CEO Ma Huateng.
"After the 'lobster' type application was launched at the beginning of this year, the industry quickly realized that in addition to the two major directions of ToC-side chat robots and ToB-side AI programming, AI has opened up a new office scene track. When the office scene is deeply integrated with various terminal hardware, a new decentralized entrance will be created, and the corresponding AI use demand will be generated for ordinary consumers and office groups at the same time." On March 18, at the performance exchange meeting after the release of the annual report, Ma Huateng said.
In Ma Huateng's view, "lobster" applications do not require users to stay in front of the screen waiting for feedback results. At the same time, they have continuous memory capabilities and distinctive personalized features. They are more like a real assistant and have a vivid "feeling of a living person". The new AI implementation scenarios opened up by "Lobster" have also opened up more business fronts for Tencent to explore.
On March 18, Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) officially released its fourth quarter and full-year performance report for 2025. Data show that in the fourth quarter of 2025, Tencent achieved revenue of 194.37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13%; adjusted operating profit was 69.52 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%. From a full-year perspective, Tencent's total revenue in 2025 will reach 751.77 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14%; adjusted net profit will be 259.626 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%.
This year, the core focus of the industry is almost entirely in the field of AI. Regarding the layout and planning of this track, Ma Huateng and Tencent executives gave detailed responses at the performance meeting.
What has the "lobster" craze brought to Tencent?
Ma Huateng said that in the past, most of the core entrances to AI applications were chatbots, and many underlying capabilities could not be fully released. However, after new scenarios emerge, Tencent can reintegrate the PC-side product matrix and Tencent Cloud's various capabilities to give full play to its own product matrix and ecological advantages. At the same time, "lobster" applications also provide new ideas for the WeChat AI functions that Tencent is planning and developing. In the future, every small program can be intelligent and "lobster-like" transformed, and can be called through API interfaces or command lines.
The previously launched Yuanbaopai product also allowed Tencent to see that there is still room for improvement in the context understanding efficiency of current agents in processing complex tasks, especially in multi-person scenarios. It needs to complement the file system, local database and memory parameter capabilities of "lobster" applications. Tencent's technical team will also fully absorb new technologies and achievements in the industry and continue to optimize products.
Talking about the relationship between the decentralized nature of "lobster" applications and the centralized nature of WeChat itself, Ma Huateng said frankly that WeChat itself is a centralized App, but its internal ecosystem is completely decentralized and currently accommodates hundreds of thousands of active mini program merchants. How to integrate the decentralized concept of "lobster" applications into the WeChat ecosystem in the future is a proposition that the team needs to focus on.
"All ecological service providers are worried about being 'short-circuited' and 'channelized' by AI agents - if the agents only call the underlying atomized services and no longer guide users to enter merchants' stores and mini-programs, service providers will inevitably be unable to accept such a model. They would rather retain their own traffic and entrances. Therefore, we must fully consider this core appeal when doing ecological design." Ma Huateng made it clear that the layout of centralization and decentralization needs to be promoted simultaneously in the future.
Tencent President Liu Chiping also disclosed at the meeting that Tencent has formulated a clear AI strategic plan and will implement a number of key actions in the next two to three quarters, and will also release quantifiable business progress in the future. At the large model level, Tencent has completed intensive team adjustments and upgrades in the past few months, reconstructing the organizational structure and work processes to make the organizational operation efficiency more suitable for the pace of AI R&D; at the same time, it has rebuilt the pre-training and reinforcement learning infrastructure to comprehensively improve data quality. Based on these layouts, Tencent is confident in creating large models with stronger intelligence in the future and further speeding up the overall iteration speed. In addition, Tencent will continue to deepen its efforts in the fields of video models and world models.
Liu Chiping said that the promotion effect of Yuanbao during the Spring Festival far exceeded expectations, and it achieved considerable new installations. Next, the team will improve user retention and activity through continuous product iteration, focusing on optimizing core capabilities such as voice dialogue. The current data has clearly shown that the upgrade of Yuanbao's capabilities will directly drive positive growth in user activity and retention rates. In addition to the existing functions of Yuanbao Pai, more differentiated features will be launched for Yuanbao in the future. In fact, WeChat has already implemented a number of AI-related layouts: search scenarios have been intelligently upgraded, AI technology has been deeply used in content recommendation and product recommendation, mini program developers can use AI tools to complete programming work, Yuanbao Dialogue Assistant has also accumulated a stable user group in WeChat, and many AI functions have completed preliminary testing in the WeChat ecosystem.
Liu Chiping made it clear that one of Tencent’s next core plans is to create an exclusive AI agent within WeChat. This agent will rely on the WeChat ecosystem to form a deep connection with users, opening up full-link capabilities such as mini programs, social networking, and payment. It can not only achieve natural dialogue with users, but also complete various complex scenario-based tasks.
AI investment will double in 2026
Liu Chiping revealed that Tencent will continue to increase investment in the AI field: Tencent's investment in the research and development of new AI products will reach 18 billion yuan in 2025, and this number will at least double in 2026.
The steady growth of Tencent's core business provides sufficient financial support for increased investment in AI. Liu Chiping said that due to the procurement gap of computing hardware such as GPUs in 2025, Tencent will make greater efforts in stock repurchases; in 2026, if the procurement of computing hardware can be successfully completed and capital expenditures meet the company's expectations, the scale of repurchases may be moderately reduced. Overall, the repurchase budget will maintain flexible room for adjustment. As long as there are sufficient resources to support the long-term development of the AI business, Tencent will prioritize investment, which will also create more considerable long-term returns for shareholders in the future.
Talking about the supply of chips and related hardware, Tencent executives said that in addition to GPUs, core hardware such as CPUs and storage are currently facing tight supply. Suppliers usually give priority to ensuring the supply of large-scale procurement partners. Tencent Cloud has previously signed multiple long-term procurement contracts. Leading cloud vendors have a greater probability of obtaining scarce hardware resources and further subletting them to customers. Because of this, domestic cloud service prices have continued to decline for a long time. It was not until the industry-wide supply shortage occurred that cloud service prices began to rise. If the supply chain tension continues, cloud service prices are likely to undergo further adjustments in the future.
It is worth noting that Tencent also revealed at the media communication meeting after the release of the financial report that the HY3.0 version of its Hunyuan large model is currently in the internal business testing stage and is planned to be officially released in April this year.
It is understood that HY3.0 is a major upgrade of Tencent's Hunyuan large model. Compared with the HY2.0 version, the overall effect has greatly improved, and the reasoning ability and agent capabilities have been significantly improved. Since the second half of 2025, Tencent Hunyuan team has completed a comprehensive reorganization of the team and R&D process, focusing on optimizing data quality, while rebuilding the core infrastructure of pre-training and reinforcement learning. These layouts will greatly improve the efficiency of model iteration and help create a base model with a higher level of intelligence.
In the future, AI will not be “one size fits all”
Talking about the fierce competition faced by Hunyuan, Tencent management said frankly that the future AI world will not be a one-size-fits-all monopoly, but a diversified world with multiple models and professional division of labor. Just as the evolution from PC Internet to mobile Internet has given rise to countless applications, the AI era will also move towards distributed and decentralized technology. Different models will have their own strengths in different areas such as code, long text, multi-modality, etc.
Under this pattern, Tencent's core advantage lies in its ability to reach users across PC, mobile, and cloud, as well as its in-depth coverage in diverse scenarios such as social networking, games, and content. The hybrid model will be closely integrated with decentralized ecosystems such as mini programs, allowing agents to have the ability to autonomously perform complex tasks, thereby providing unique value to users.
Tencent management said that with its strong ecosystem and application scenarios, Hunyuan can become one of the excellent models that users and enterprises can choose based on cost-effectiveness and performance needs.
On the day of the results release, topics related to Tencent employee salary also appeared on the hot search list.
Financial report data shows that as of December 31, 2025, Tencent's total number of global employees reached 115,849, compared with 110,558 employees at the end of 2024, with 5,291 new employees throughout the year. At the same time, the financial report disclosed that Tencent's total salary cost in 2025 will be 130.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.87%; based on this calculation, the per capita annual salary cost of Tencent employees in 2025 will be approximately 1.128 million yuan.
| This article was first published in Tencent News
On March 18, the US-Israel-Iraq war entered its 18th day. With the assassination of Iran's No. 2 figure, the "meat grinder" at the military level is still running at high speed.
However, what really worries Washington is the unprecedented resignation protests within its intelligence system and the serious rift between the two sides of the Atlantic over the issue of "paying for escorts." According to many strategic analysts, this military operation, which was originally intended to be a quick victory, is facing a huge disaster that will backfire on its own strategy.
Iran’s No. 2 figure is assassinated, US and Israel’s “desperate assessment” leaked
In a series of attacks on Iran's command center, Israel announced the successful assassination of Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and a core figure of the pragmatists. This news was subsequently confirmed by Iranian officials and Larijani’s social accounts. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to package this as a decisive victory that completely shaken the Tehran regime, and continued to incite the Iranian people in public to launch an uprising to overthrow the government.
However, an Israeli diplomatic cable leaked to the US Embassy in Jerusalem shattered this political propaganda. In this top-secret assessment, Israeli officials privately admitted that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is in complete control of the domestic situation, and that the regime not only “does not have any cracks” but is fully prepared to “fight to the end.”
This not only exposed the gap in Tel Aviv's strategic expectations, but also confirmed that Iran still maintains strong systemic resilience and defensive determination after experiencing continuous extreme pressure.
Tel Aviv attack, UN warns of 'war crimes'
Retaliation on the battlefield is spiraling in ways that continue to break the mold.
At midnight, Iran launched a ballistic missile carrying a cluster warhead into central Israel, severely damaging the Ramat Gan area around Tel Aviv. At the same time, Iran's long-range firepower network continues to extend to Jerusalem and the West Bank. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked intensively by suicide drones for two consecutive nights.
On the northern front, Israel's indiscriminate bombing of dense residential areas in southern Lebanese cities (such as Tyre) has led the United Nations Human Rights Office to officially issue a warning that its actions may constitute "war crimes."
In order to regain control of the strategic waterway, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) dropped extremely destructive 5,000-pound heavy ground-penetrating bombs along the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to completely destroy Iran's anti-ship cruise missile positions. This use of strategic-level deterrent weapons to attack tactical targets highlights the deep anxiety of the US military in the face of a long-term blockade of the Strait. However, the indiscriminate pouring of firepower did not bring the expected security, but instead accelerated the evolution of the living environment in the entire Middle East into a "scorched earth".
Counter-terrorism chief resigns, uncovering 'war hoax'
Compared with the smoke of war in the Middle East, the turbulence in the inner circle of Washington's politics is equally intense.
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), suddenly announced his resignation and made serious accusations against the Trump administration in his resignation letter. Kent bluntly pointed out that Iran did not pose the so-called "imminent threat" at all, and that the war was completely a hoax carefully concocted by Tel Aviv and its US lobby through disinformation to induce the United States to repeat the mistakes of the Iraq War.
This accusation was immediately confirmed by high-level British intelligence. According to British National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, during the final negotiations in Vienna two days before the war began, Iran had made substantial concessions on its nuclear program, and a "peace agreement that could avoid war is within reach." However, just 48 hours later, missiles from the US-Israeli coalition roared in. This deliberate stifling of opportunities for peace is not only untenable under international law, but has also plunged the U.S. national security apparatus into deep moral and strategic divisions.
This counterattack from the top of the intelligence community severely weakened the legitimacy narrative of the war. Although Trump angrily countered in front of the media that Kent "has always been weak on security issues" and the White House spokesperson also tried his best to defend him, this resignation has inevitably opened a huge rift within the Republican Party and American society.
This military operation not only faced severe scrutiny under international law, but also encountered subversive doubts within the US national security apparatus.
The final bankruptcy of Hegemonic Escort
On the diplomatic battlefield, Trump’s relations with his European allies have dropped to a freezing point.
According to senior Republicans, after many countries refused to participate in escorting the Strait of Hormuz, Trump expressed strong dissatisfaction and posted a fierce message on social media, declaring that the United States, as the most powerful country, "does not need the help of NATO and Europe at all." However, this emotional statement did not change Europe's strategic stance.
British Foreign Secretary Cooper made it clear in the House of Commons that the UK will never "outsource" foreign policy to Trump, and that the Royal Navy may participate in maintaining order only after a comprehensive ceasefire agreement is reached. French President Macron even directly declared that under the current background, France will never participate in any military operation to reopen the strait.
At the same time, the economic backlash caused by the war was spreading to Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was forced to issue an emergency decree limiting gas stations across the country to only raise fuel prices once a day to curb panic inflation caused by the Channel blockade. Kaya Callas, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, even bluntly called on the United States and Israel to end the war as soon as possible to "preserve dignity."
On March 18, the Guangxi Pubei County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau issued a situation report:
On March 17 and 18, 2026, some netizens posted videos reflecting the pollution at the garbage dump site in Xintang Village, Zhanghuang Town, our county, and the pollution at the garbage transfer station in Quanshui Town, among other related issues. The Pubei County Party Committee and County Government attached great importance to it and immediately established a joint working group involving agriculture and rural areas, comprehensive law enforcement, housing construction, ecological environment, relevant towns and other units to carry out on-site verification and rectification of the problems reflected in the video. The relevant situation is now reported as follows.
1. Regarding the reported issue of “pollution from the garbage dump in Xintang Village”. After verification, the location involved in the problem is located in Xintang Village, Dapo Village Committee, Zhanghuang Town, Pubei County, with more than 40 tons of garbage piled on site. The working group immediately mobilized forces to conduct a comprehensive cleanup of the dump site, and standardized the transfer to the county waste incineration power plant for disposal. The problem has been resolved.
2. Regarding the reported issue of “pollution from the Quanshui Town Garbage Transfer Station”. After verification, the location involved in the problem is located at the waste transfer station in Quanshui Town, Pubei County, which is used for temporary storage of domestic waste before being transferred to the county waste incineration power plant for disposal. More than 160 tons of untransferred garbage were piled on site. The working group immediately mobilized forces to transfer and dispose of the garbage at the transfer station. 24 poultry discarded on site were treated harmlessly. The problem has been dealt with.
3. Regarding the reported issue of “the poster was blocked from filming the rectification scene”. After verification, it was found that at the time of the incident, garbage removal and mechanical operations were being carried out at the Xintang Village garbage dump site of Dapo Village Committee, Zhanghuang Town. In order to ensure site safety and smooth construction, temporary persuasion was provided to those entering the site. Due to the simple working methods of the on-site staff and insufficient explanations, misunderstandings occurred. The Zhanghuang Town People's Government has severely criticized and educated the relevant personnel.
The problems exposed by netizens this time reflect that we still have shortcomings and loopholes in domestic waste disposal. We humbly accept criticisms and suggestions from all walks of life, draw inferences from one example, and make strict rectifications. We organize and carry out investigation and rectification of hidden dangers in domestic waste disposal throughout the county, continue to strengthen the construction of domestic waste collection, transfer, and disposal systems, and continuously improve the rural living environment.
Thanks to the general public and netizens for their concern, support and supervision.
Source: "Pubei Release" WeChat official account
In 2016, I read the prose works of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie for the first time. I was a visiting scholar at Oxford University at the time, and while browsing the bookstore, I noticed two collections of essays published by Jamie: Findings and Sightlines. The cover of the former showed a peregrine falcon, soaring over the Scottish Highlands, while the latter showed a group of seabirds flying in the blue sky. Their snow-white bodies and black wingtips contrasted sharply. The postures of these flying birds were so relaxed and free that it was fascinating. I remembered this writer's name, and later encountered him repeatedly in relevant reviews of "New Nature Literature," so I began to dabble in representative works of contemporary British nature literature.
The label "new nature literature" was first proposed by Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the famous British literary magazine "Granta". In 2008, "Granta" magazine published the 102nd "Special Edition", which included 18 contemporary British and American authors. Among them, British writers include Richard Maby, Roger Deakin and Robert MacFarlane who have been translated and introduced in China in recent years. Catherine Jamie's essay "Sickness" was also published for the first time in this special issue, and was later included in her collection of essays Sightlines (the Chinese translation is called "Going to the Island"). In the preface, Cowley classifies the lyrical pastoral tradition of British Romantic writers as "old-school nature literature" and points out that contemporary creators no longer only enthusiastically praise and indulge in nature, but also view it with a "scientific eye" and write with "literary techniques", so it is a new nature literature. Although this distinction is too simplistic, the label was still used by British academics and media. In short, "new nature literature" corresponds to the prosperity of contemporary British nature literature creation in the past two decades. Its typical creations are non-fiction works, usually using personal narratives, focusing on meticulous observation of field scenes, focusing on exploring the intricate relationship between nature and culture, and reflecting on the impact of human activities on the ecological environment.
Catherine Jamie
Among the important writers of the "new nature literature" genre, Catherine Jamie is the only poet. Her perspective is the most unique and her writing style is distinctive. She once wrote in her autobiography: "My thoughts have what Robert Louis Stevenson called a 'strong Scottish accent'". Let’s first review her creative career.
"Going to the Islands: Northern Lights, Boobies and Whales"
Catherine Jamie was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland on May 13, 1962, and grew up in Currie, Midlothian. Currie is located in the western suburbs of Edinburgh, with the city center at one end and the Pentland Mountains at the other, only a few kilometers away from home. Jamie mentioned in later interviews that this was her footing, somewhere between the city and the mountains. Her mother is a law firm clerk and her father is an accountant. Catherine is the eldest daughter in the family, with one younger brother and one younger sister. This is a family with no literary background. The only books in the family are Robert Burns' poetry collection and the Bible, and Jamie began writing poetry at the age of fifteen.
Writing poetry was an odd thing to do in such a family, so Jamie always wrote secretly. Writing poetry is a "real and liberating" creation for her. She cherishes it extremely and has inexplicable confidence in her creation. After graduating from high school, she volunteered to join an archaeological excavation project (the article "Women in the Wild" in "To the Island" recalls this past). The exam results were not ideal, but she was unwilling to consider the librarian position or secretarial college suggested by her mother. Later, she persuaded her parents to repeat her studies at night school, and finally entered the University of Edinburgh to major in philosophy. If Deakin, MacFarlane, and Mabey, the other representative writers of the "new nature literature", can be counted as the "East Anglia Gang", they all live in the seaside lowlands in the east of England, including Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, which were once full of swamps and had a long farming tradition. Jamie is a native resident of the Scottish Highlands.
During her undergraduate studies, Catherine completed her first collection of poems, Black Spider, which was published in 1982 and won the Eric Gregory Poetry Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. At the age of 20, she decided to drop out of school and took her prize money to travel to distant places, across Eurasia, and in northeastern Pakistan. She later wrote a travelogue, The Golden Peak (1992). After returning to China, her scholarship ran out and she soon found it difficult to make a living writing poetry. She was always in financial straits, and twice she finally decided to sit down and write a novel. However, after writing 30,000 words, she put down her pen and asked herself: "What are you doing? I can do it with a twenty-line poem..."
So she continued to write poetry. In the next thirty years, she published seventeen collections of poems and won many national poetry awards. In 2021, Catherine Jamie was elected as Scotland's national poet (Scots Makar). She is the fourth poet selected by the Scottish Parliament since this honor was established in 2004.
The themes of Jamie's early poetry were closely linked to Scottish national identity. The collection of poems Queen of Sheba (1994) occupies an important position in the history of modern Scottish poetry. This is a collection of poems written in English and Scots. One of them, "Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead", is a representative poem of this period. This poem was originally translated and introduced by Professor Zhang Jian from the School of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University and included in his translation book "Modern Scottish Poetry". In the preface, he introduced the revival of Scottish poetry in the 20th century and talked about how Jamie's poem raised the issue of how to treat Scotland's cultural heritage through the death of the two old men, "Mr. and Mrs. Scotland." "The old man's relics include industrial, agricultural, cultural and tourism products, which are being piled up in garbage dumps and facing the danger of being bulldozed away. As a contemporary Scotsman, the poet believes that the death of her country depends on whether future generations can inherit and carry forward the above-mentioned heritage."
The 1999 collection of poems "Jizzen" (Jizzen, 1999) marked a change in the poet's creative focus. In her thirties, she became a mother for the first time. Her complex feelings about the birth experience, her reflections on her childhood life, and her thoughts on culture and nature, existence and belonging were all written into this slim collection of poems. Childbirth won the Jeffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and she soon had her first teaching position, teaching creative writing at the University of St. Andrews. Her colleagues include Robert Crawford, John Burnside and Don Patterson, all of whom were a new generation of Scottish poets active in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the later poetry collections "The Tree House" (2004) and "The Overhaul" (2012), the poet's sensibility and philosophy more frequently rested on all things in the world - alders, swallow's nests, daisies, seabirds moulting, stags, the moon, and even a puddle. She pays attention to nature and also thinks about human beings' place in the world. There is a group of poems in the collection of poems called "Comprehensive Overhaul", called "Five Sonnets on the River Tay". The last one talks about the exposed sand embankment and thin trickle of water on the river bank after the tide recedes. It is the charming scenery on her commute, which can be reached by walking through two fields. , but such a walk away from daily life has never been realized. She just plays with an idea and lurks a suspense at the end of the poem: "One day I will drive to the meeting place a mile away from home and park the car there/When they find out, the engine buzzes softly." Jamie's poetic style often reminds me of William Carlos Williams. The poems are written in concise spoken language, derived from daily poetic thoughts, and the clear and direct images seem to be those decisive moments captured by Cartier-Bresson's lens.
In 2015, Jamie published a collection of poems, The Bonniest Companie, which included the results of her "Poetry Weekly" in 2014. Since 1979, there have been increasing calls for the devolution of legislative power to the Scottish Legislature, and the 1997 referendum produced substantial results: after 300 years of vesting legislative power in the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Scottish Parliament would reconvene. On September 18, 2014, Scotland launched an independence referendum. In the end, 45% of the citizens voted in favor and 55% voted against. Scotland failed to leave the United Kingdom. The poet called it a "year of tremendous energy" in Scotland, and she threw herself into it creatively. Reading these 47 short and concise poems is like following the poet's footsteps through spring, summer, autumn and winter, through the cities and wilderness of Scotland, and sometimes following the poet's memory to salvage history and myths.
Some important themes are written repeatedly, and poetry and prose form an intertextuality. For example, the change of light at the turn of winter and spring in mid-February is the earliest sign of spring for northern residents with long and cold winters, and a joyful "day when the light returns." The essay "Light" in "To the Island" writes about this momentous moment.
The prose "Light" was exactly the passage that editor Hu Xiaokai sent me for trial translation. At that time, we already realized that this was a prose written by a poet, and the translation of such text must not be abrupt. I remember the careful state of mind when I repeatedly considered the words, sentence structure and tone. I also remember being shocked when I read the original sentence "The sun is like a razor, slowly moving across the grass, willow branches, apple trees and birch trees." Jamie writes that in the third week of February, a certain point has been reached where the sun suddenly rises and the light returns. I have a similar experience. I also live in the north. I am also very sensitive to the changes in light at the turn of winter and spring. For two consecutive years, I wrote the same diary in the second week of February because I noticed that the sunshine at five o'clock in the evening was so bright, as if I had gotten rid of the sluggishness of the long winter and had a new look. I'm reminded of a passage in Jamie's first collection of essays, Findings, from "Darkness and Light," in which she writes that she "loves the precise gestures of the sun at this time of year. When the sun finally rises over the mountain peaks, the sun shines directly through our kitchen window. A beam of light hits the dining table and illuminates the entire living room. However, within an hour, south to the southeast, the sun will once again set behind the mountains, leaving only a few hours of gradually dimming twilight." These paragraphs describing light were the beginning of my interest in Jamie’s prose.
Jamie began to try non-fiction writing when she was forty years old. She mentioned in her autobiography: "I remember standing in the Scottish literature and nature/outdoor writing area of a bookstore, looking through works, and thinking: 'There are no books I want to read here, they don't exist.'" In the next two years, she completed her first collection of essays, Findings, which was published by the independent publishing organization Sort of Books in 2005. At first neither the publisher nor the media could grasp the style of this collection of essays. Travel literature may be the closest label, but in addition to bird watching, whale watching, and salmon migration watching, other destinations are unexpected, such as going to experience darkness and light in the prehistoric tombs of Meshowe, "investigating" the Edinburgh skyline in the field of telescope, and even viewing pathological specimens in the College of Surgeons Museum. These proses are composed of fragments connected one after another, with jumping narrative and calm tone. They are completely different from the style of nature literature that I am used to reading before.
There is an essay in the book titled "Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Crane", which forms a meaningful contrast with J.A. Baker's masterpiece "Peregrine Falcon". There was a pair of peregrine falcons on the cliff near Jamie's residence. On a dry April day with little rain, she listened to the female falcon's call every day and heard the male's response two weeks later. Peregrine falcons rarely have breeding pairs in the local area. Throughout the spring and summer, she continued to pay attention, using a telescope by the window to observe the peregrine falcons mating, preening, and bringing prey back to their nest sites. The light of the sunny day after the heavy rain is bright and clear, and the male falcon looks so real: "smooth gray back, beak and claws as bright as buttercup flowers." Jamie bought Baker's "The Peregrine Falcon" and read it from the beginning, gradually realizing that the lone man's obsession with birds and the narrative that accompanied it had almost become a tradition, while her bird-watching experience was very different: "In between doing the laundry and picking up the kids from school, birds entered my life. I listened. Car Oystercatchers when the stream takes a break. On the primary school playground, there are only a few sparrows left - chirping in the corners of the eaves... Birds exist on the edge of my life." In just a few strokes, Jamie reveals a common and real female situation, and opens up a "bird watching" narrative that is different from the traditional model.
Jamie's prose writing is similar to her poetic style, with concise language and less use of adjectives and adverbs. She keeps a distance from the subject of her writing and does not stare with all her strength. This kind of viewing is not rough, but seems to be a sense of prudence and propriety. Sometimes I feel a little dissatisfied with her plain descriptions, but I am also curious about the direction of the text. If I read it calmly, I will suddenly be struck by the wonderful imagery. As Adam Nicholson said: "Very few people write about nature and travel in this way: they achieve the precision and sensitivity of poetry, but the basis of writing is always ordinary everyday life."
One day Jamie rode her bicycle to the Tay River and saw ospreys and a large group of swans. When she was satisfied and ready to go home, she noticed a large bird flying in the sky that she had never seen before. She hurriedly took out her binoculars. The big bird flew directly overhead. She knelt on the ground and looked up carefully, relying entirely on her eyesight and memory: "Look at the wings... straight, rectangular, with black, fingertip-like feather tips. Look at its flight - it's not like a heron. The flapping of its wings seems not strong enough or confident enough, but... trembling." "I was like a medieval farmer who had received divine enlightenment, kneeling in a field, locked by this mysterious cross in the sky. Then, the big bird slowly flew out of my sight, and I rushed home like an excited child, carefully holding its image in my mind like a bowl full of clear water - never spilling a drop." This description portrays the mentality of a birdwatcher very vividly, and the metaphors used are unforgettable.
In 2012, Sightlines, a companion volume to Findings, was published. Jamie's second collection of essays continues the style and themes of his first book. This book won the Royal Geographical Society's Nice Prize. The award citation called it "writing at the intersection of nature, culture and travel." Jamie's thoughts on this were: "It is indeed true. Nature, culture and travel, written by a Scottish woman with a young son. (Sometimes 'travel' means going to the post office, or the end of the park! But there are also islands and archaeological excavation sites." Seven years have passed. Jamie's children have gradually grown up, and the restrictions on time and space have become much looser. She still roams around Scotland most of the time, such as visiting the isolated island of St. Kilda west of the Hebrides, but her footprints also extend to more distant places, such as Greenland and Spain. We named the Chinese translation of Sightlines as "Going to the Island" because the island travel notes are the most important and more representative.
In the process of translating this book, I once again noticed Jamie’s tendency to de-romanticize and suppress lyricism when describing nature. Also writing about icebergs, Barry Lopez has an affectionate tone and gorgeous diction ("Arctic Dream"), while Jamie looked at the slowly approaching icebergs and "felt a huge and frozen indifference." Her associations are sometimes quite personal: the "heavy, eerie green" of the water evokes the "shameful" memory of a rubber mat in her mother's hand as a child. Modernity and nature sometimes overlap: the green color of the aurora "is exactly the same as the green color flashed by the radar when the information reader on the ship displays the longitude and latitude", and the gorgeous and changing aurora "is more like a grand event presented by technology". Making the grand everyday is also a strategy: "If Green Aurora could be tasted, it would fizz on the tongue and taste like mint cream." But the poet's sensibility is divergent and he is not obsessed with one moment or one experience. The next moment, "The aurora turned into a long trail falling down, reminding me of whale baleen. Sieve, what to sift? Stars, souls or particles? Let's imagine that the aurora is a huge whale, and our ship is sailing into its jaws." Such a deep, boundless, and grand image appeared. I was surprised by this explosion of poetic imagination, and there was no trace of the leap from heaviness to lightness.
Jamie's concern for seabirds and cetaceans became more and more profound. She was no longer content to just watch, but devoted herself to volunteer work. The prose "Island of Rona" describes Jamie's experience with the expedition team investigating the white-rumped petrels on Rona Island. This is a rare bird species that is in decline and has a breeding colony on the island. She personally participated in the counting and recorded the calls of petrels in the cracks of the stone wall. She also helped clean whale bones in the Whale Hall of the Natural History Museum in Bergen, Norway, using small toothbrushes, toothpicks and cotton swabs to handle the giant skeletons, while thinking about the past and present lives of whales - "from exploding darts, cutting off skin, flesh and fat, to soft sponges and toothpicks - this is how they have withstood all aspects of human attention." In these essays, Jamie vividly records the work sites of field investigators and specimen preservation experts, and does not forget to restore those interesting conversations. She is an excellent listener. When she thinks about the relationship between humans and nature, her favorite word is negotiation. “It’s arrogant to think you can influence the world; it’s also arrogant to think you can’t influence the world” – Jamie’s position is somewhere in the middle.
Jamie's interest in archeology dates back to her teenage years, and "Women in the Wild" spans thirty years, revisiting the sites where she volunteered on archaeological digs after graduating from high school. The excavation site of the Neolithic megalithic site, the life of a semi-hippie volunteer group, the atmosphere of the 1960s, and her own unresolved future are all tied to this turning point (pun intended) in the discovery of Stonehenge. "Opening the tomb in the sound of thunder shook the mind, as if it were beyond the bounds. Writing poetry, in its calm way, also achieves this purpose. The weight of a word, the arrangement of rhyme, carefully reveal a certain reality, an artifact that does not always show 'meaning'." This field work experience seems to be the point at which Jamie decided to pursue poetry as his career.
The nature described by Jamie is nature in the broad sense and in the plural form. The article "Symptoms" focuses on the discussion of the definition of nature and continues her focus on humanistic medicine. Jamie wrote that after her mother died of lung cancer, she went to an environmental conference and was troubled by the speeches of the writers at the conference. She talked about the simplified definition of "nature" with her acquaintance Dr. Frank, "Nature is not just primroses and otters, but also the inner nature that is closely related to us... There are other species, but they are not dolphins that jump out of the water, but bacteria that destroy us." In the pathology lab, Jamie noticed that the inside of the colon sample was "light brown and ribbed, a bit like a beach at low tide." Starting from this metaphor, the nature inside the human body goes hand in hand with the nature outside. She once again came to the pathology laboratory and observed the magnified cells and bacteria under the doctor's double-headed microscope. Following the doctor's instructions, she took a bird's-eye view of "river deltas, wetlands, peninsulas and atolls". Helicobacter pylori became "six or seven extremely black elliptical spots, which were still very small after magnification, scattered in the blue valley, looking down from a high distance like musk oxen on the tundra." Jamie follows the lens of the microscope as he roams, "enters", "overlooks", "transfers" and "drops", exploring the landscape inside the human body. It can be said that in this way, significant natural experiences do not need to be "externally sought". The individual's flesh and blood body - the hidden land of mountains and rivers is probably a more remote wilderness. Human beings have extremely limited understanding of this wilderness and are full of prejudice against some of its components. Jamie uses his experiences and words to expand the boundaries of 'wilderness'. It also reminds me of a quote from Thoreau's diary: "It is futile to dream of a wilderness far away from ourselves. No such place has ever existed. It is the swamp in our brains and guts, the wild and primitive energy in us, that inspires this dream."
Nature literature writer David Haskell (represented as "The Invisible Forest") evaluates Jamie's writing from another perspective: "She...eliminates the boundaries between the so-called 'nature' and the human world. Eliminating or blurring this boundary is particularly important in the case of Scotland. Writers from other places have repeatedly relied on romantic naturalists She describes Scotland from a different perspective, pursues the solace of 'wilderness', and even claims that this land belongs to them, but she believes that this view is offensive to those who have lived on this land for generations." In the article "Three Ways of Seeing St Kilda", Jamie constantly revised her understanding of "wilderness" through the experience of three trips. Her third trip to St. Kilda was with an exploration team from the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Scotland, who were planning to map the entire "cultural landscape" of the archipelago. Every man-made structure on the island will be surveyed using the latest GPS satellite devices. Jamie admitted that she was "slightly uncomfortable with this level of precision survey", and "what was equally uncomfortable was observing a landscape that others had created and then abandoned behind them, while realizing that there were invisible satellites quietly patrolling high in the sky at any time." She realized that St. Kilda was definitely not the escape that visitors from far away were looking for.
From this perspective, Jamie's writing is a "counter-narrative" that deliberately breaks the mainstream narrative of "wilderness". As a native Scottish writer, she focuses on the relationship between local residents and the surrounding environment, emphasizing that "wilderness" and "wildness" are not the daily experiences of Scottish residents. Jamie later also noted in the foreword to her edited volume Antlers on the Water: Selections of Scottish Environmental Literature: “Our experience of land and nature is not possessive”. Her nature writing is intended to correct the perspective of outsiders, who often measure everything on this land by their own standards, ignoring its original history, traditions, and the way of life shaped by the interaction between people and the local environment for thousands of years.
In an interview, Jamie mentioned that he paid special attention to the first-person "I" when writing. "After writing a page, I read it and found that I had been used 17 times. I went back and deleted two-thirds of the 'I'." Why do you want the first person to be absent? Jamie admits that “I am the perceptual center of the experience,” yet is acutely aware that too much self is “tiring.” She wanted to try to make others actually see things in their reading. This style of writing is indeed "non-possessive". Jamie's writing made me realize that the intoxicating and long-lasting "gaze" may be inseparable from the projection of personal emotions and desires, and the "enough" and "enough" that often appear in Jamie's writings are not an inability to focus, but a kind of departure when enough is enough. In this way, I can better understand why John Berger likes Jamie's work: "The discoverer has not disturbed the discovered thing, and this requires courage and consideration."
Reading Jamie's "To the Island" carefully, you can better understand why she calls her prose "expanded poetry." She once said that her prose is created in the same way as writing poetry: "Unique. Delicate. Cautious. Attention." She ponders the language of prose as she ponders the language of poetry: "sound, rhyme, rhythm, tone, syntax, imagery, balance, association, when the prose flows and when it suddenly turns." The fourteen essays included in this book even pay attention to the alternation of length and length. The fifth chapter "Light", the tenth chapter "Magpie Moth", and the fourteenth and final chapter "Wind" are all short in length, and the refined prose poems are like rests between musical sections, but the lingering sound is endless. Haskell has an apt comment about Jamie's prose form: "Reading Jamie's prose, one feels like a needle in a tapestry that is taking shape, the direction of the needle being determined by a skilled and sometimes mischievous weaver." As soon as I started reading Jamie's sentences, my reading speed immediately slowed down. Because I had listened to the poetry read by Jamie, her voice sounded in my mind, with a soft and melodious Scottish accent.
Finally, I would like to conclude with a poem by Katherine Jamie entitled “Here Lies Our Land”
This is our land, under the flowing clouds
Every direction, the sunshine shining happily
It belongs only to itself.
We are just passers-by, singing
West wind and fern-covered hillsides
Northern lights and silvery waves…
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