The Crunching of Broad Beans at Dead of
Night: The Secret Interview on China’s Silk Road is a novel based on the
interview between a western female sinologist and a writer from Western China,
which still sets against the same backdrop of China’s west as many of Xue Mo’s
works. As the two’s communications go on and on in the book, it not only
presents readers with nineteen vivid and wonderful stories about men, women and
animals living in the western provinces of China, but also explores their inner
qualities and explains in great detail why their fate is so different from each
other. Thus, the book is thought to be the one that can not only make you
thoroughly understand the west of China , but also may enable you to read your
own destiny.