About the author

Heitao: public information about this author is limited, and details of his identity and life are not currently verifiable. Judging from the five works held in the collection, his writing centers on prose and literary essays, and is commonly classified under miscellaneous prose, literature, and classic works. Representative titles include Mud and Flame: Notes from the South, Listening Alone in the Attic to the Secret Language of All Things: Bruno Schulz Poems, Night Burning: Portraits of Frozen Time, Chinese Albums, and The Book of Hundreds of Thousands of Billions of Volumes. These titles reveal a distinctive personal orientation: he often takes southern experience, night and time, and reading and foreign writers as points of entry, fusing everyday observation, local memory, and poetic meditation. His language is concentrated and dense, and his works often take the form of notes and album-like fragments. Though limited in number, his works show a conscious engagement with the prose form and suit readers who prefer contemplative, introspective writing.

Written (6)

Xinmin Shuo · Extreme Literary Series · Mud and Flame: Southern Notes cover
Rating 4.0
Xinmin Shuo · Extreme Literary Series · Mud and Flame: Southern Notes 黑陶 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026 Composed of 99 short essays, Clay and Flame: Notes from the South is a collection of prose about the author's hometown in Jiangnan. In these pages, Zh…
Alone in the Attic, Listening to the Secret Whispers of All Things: The Poems of Bruno Schulz cover
Rating 4.0
Alone in the Attic, Listening to the Secret Whispers of All Things: The Poems of Bruno Schulz 黑陶 · 2026 Alone in the Attic, Listening to the Secret Language of All Things: Bruno Schulz Poems is a collection of 128 poems by the poet and essayist Hei Tao, …
Extreme Literary Series, Hei Tao Works Series: Chinese Album Leaves cover
Rating 3.9
Extreme Literary Series, Hei Tao Works Series: Chinese Album Leaves 黑陶 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026 China Album is writer Hei Tao's cultural travelogue, chiefly expressing a cultural traveler's reflections as he journeys across the land of his homela…
A Hundred, a Thousand, Ten Thousand, a Hundred Million Books cover
Rating 3.8
A Hundred, a Thousand, Ten Thousand, a Hundred Million Books 黑陶 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022 This is a new collection of essays by Hei Tao. Following the traditional Chinese order of the Five Elements, it is divided into five sections: Fire Bo…
Burning Night: A Frozen Portrait of Time cover
Rating 4.0
Burning Night: A Frozen Portrait of Time 黑陶 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2021 Night Scorching is a collection of 39 essays, including "Green Sleeves," "South Street and Time," "The Form of Time," "Breathing Beneath the Green Sha…
Silent Fire: Selected Poems of Hei Tao (1987–2013) cover
Silent Fire: Selected Poems of Hei Tao (1987–2013) 黑陶 Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2014 Silent Fire: Selected Poems of Hei Tao (1987–2013) is the first poetry collection of the poet Hei Tao (real name Cao Jianping), published by Beiyue Li…

Publishers

Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd.Guangxi Normal University Press