About the author

Tao Lixia is an author in the Chinese book market known for her essays and travel writing. The library currently holds seven of her works, including Traveling Apart, Letters from the Island, Practicing Being Alone: When I Begin to Love Myself, The Gentleness of This Moment, Handwritten Letters, and Everything Broken, Everything Ashen, as well as a three-volume collection of warm and healing travel essays. Her writing often centers on travel, solitude, and everyday emotions, with a gentle and delicate tone that carries a healing and introspective quality. Her works are commonly classified under travel, essays and miscellaneous writings, and literature, with some also placed in foreign literature. Public information about her nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and awards is limited, and no existing profile is available in the library, so this sketch focuses only on the themes and style of her works rather than speculating about her life.

Written (7)

A Collection of Warm and Healing Travel Essays (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.6
A Collection of Warm and Healing Travel Essays (3 Volumes) 陶立夏 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 In Letters from the Islands, Ondaatje says that if you look down from the air, the world has no borders, and those boundary lines on the map do not ex…
Traveling Apart cover
Rating 4.1
Traveling Apart 陶立夏 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 I want to take the trip you promised, alone. I want to see eternity for the two of us. In that moment I knew that although I once thought I'd have a l…
Letters from the Island cover
Rating 3.9
Letters from the Island 陶立夏 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Moved by the call of islands, she set out on a journey she could not refuse, flying across mountains and seas to visit ten lonely islands scattered al…
The Gentleness of This Moment cover
Rating 3.7
The Gentleness of This Moment 陶立夏 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Tenderness of This Moment
Everything Broken, Everything Ashes cover
Rating 4.2
Everything Broken, Everything Ashes 威尔斯·陶尔 / 陶立夏 People's Literature Publishing House · 2024 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is the first short story collection by American writer Wells Tower. It contains nine stories about life's hardsh…
Practicing Solitude: When I Began to Love Myself cover
Rating 3.9
Practicing Solitude: When I Began to Love Myself 陶立夏 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This book records a full year of freedom that the author, Tao Lixia, gave to herself. She no longer had to rush out to attend one gathering after anot…
Handwritten cover
Rating 3.8
Handwritten 迈克尔·翁达杰 / 陶立夏 People's Literature Publishing House · 2022 Published in 1998, Handwriting is a poetry collection divided into three parts, including eighteen poems and one long poem. These poems about love, la…

Publishers

People's Literature Publishing HouseZhejiang Literature and Art Publishing HouseHunan Literature and Art Publishing House