One Night Flight

Name: One Night Flight
ISBN: 9787522536583

黄惠子Jiuzhou Press · ChinaNov 2025

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Word count: 140K words
Chapters: 14
ISBN: 9787522536583

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Summary

The thirteen stories in this collection stand alone, each with its own characters and its own tale, threading through subtle forking paths of time and space.

Like "Wonderland": a girl who calls herself "I," living with Alice in Wonderland syndrome, uses her own powers to help her uncle Dai Yunxiang escape smoothly, transforming into a bluebird to pursue his dream. Yet this help and its fulfillment exist only in what "I" sees, in the otherworld "I" conjures—not unfolded in the plain, everyday flow of time. Behind it lies a reality that may be cruel, painful, and dim;

Like "One Night's Flight": "I" and the countless others represented by "you" live in different branches running parallel through the world. For reasons unknown, the two branches fold together; "you" see "I" flying, and your lifelong bewilderment before and longing for flight arrive here at a place of peace;

Like "The Journey": Meng Wen has always believed that her father, who vanished with a train into the horizon, took a journey through a time-space tunnel. The tunnel opens by chance, briefly connecting worlds of different dimensions at a point where they intersect;

Like "The Outsider": the sense of being a stranger in a strange land falls not only on the surface story of Zhang Beichen and Zhao Qi but seeps into what lies behind it—one can imagine, in countless other moments, the faint stories of the delivery courier alumnus, the woman who jumped into the river, the guitar-playing singer;

Like "Barnacles": we have no way of knowing whether the mysterious author He Xing has a physical body or is merely a phantom, a virtual image;

Like "Spring Dream": beneath the vivid scents lies the void and death hidden on the dark side;

Editor's review

A Night Flight is Huang Huizi's new essay collection following I Wish. It continues her delicate, gentle style while delving deeper into the texture of life. This is not a traditional travelogue or city guide, but a stream-of-consciousness journey mapped by night and space. The author focuses on corners obscured by the day's clamor—late-night convenience stores, early-morning emergency rooms, the last subway train, transit halls, sleepless bookstores... In these gaps suspended in time, individual loneliness, the city's breath, and fragile human connections are magnified. Huang excels at capturing fleeting moments and emotions, using near-microscopic observation to elevate everyday scenes into metaphorical literary spaces. Her writing combines a woman writer's sensitivity and lyricism with a cool detachment, achieving a fine balance between emotion and reason. The value of this book lies in the new perspective it offers: when speed has become the totem of modern life, it invites readers to rediscover, in slowness and pause, the overlooked beauty of details and the profound poetry hidden in ordinary nights. It does not provide answers but serves as a mirror reflecting the shared spiritual portrait of contemporary urbanites—the complex state of seeking anchorage amid flux and experiencing loneliness in a crowd.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers of essays who love delicate storytelling and everyday philosophy
Those who are often alone late at night and acutely attuned to cities and human relationships
Urban readers seeking a moment of spiritual respite from a fast-paced life
Writers interested in blending literary quality with documentary realism in nonfiction

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting strong plot and fast pacing
Readers seeking practical guides or clearly stated arguments

Reading tips

Read in sections at night or in a quiet setting to better immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the text
Try comparing a scene described in the book with a night view of a city you know
There is no need to finish it in one sitting; it works well as a bedside book, to be dipped into according to mood

About the publisher

Jiuzhou Press China · Founded in 1993

Jiuzhou Press is a comprehensive publisher with humanities, social sciences, and classic works as important publishing directions, maintaining a sustained focus on philosophy, history, literature, and social culture. Its catalogue includes works by modern literary masters such as Xiao Hong and Lu Xun, as well as intellectual and art history works by Xu Fuguan, including A History of Chinese Theories of Human Nature: Pre-Qin Volume, A History of Han Thought, and The Spirit of Chinese Art: A Study of Shitao. It also translates and introduces overseas academic works such as Peter H. Wilson's The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy and Peter Suber's The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, and covers cross-cultural exchange themes such as From Dunhuang to Samarkand. Its publishing character lies in balancing the organization of original texts with academic translation, forming relatively stable author and title resources in categories including philosophy, military affairs, theory, and social culture. More complete information about the press's publishing history and plans is limited in publicly available sources; this summary is based only on the titles in the catalogue.

版权信息
明天
仙境
如树如风
外地人
春日梦境
旅途
莫奈的黄昏
一夜飞行
浮出水面
白马
藤壶
金星闪烁
公园

FAQ

How does this book differ from the author's previous work, I Wish?

One Night's Flight is more tightly focused on "night" and "the gaps in the city"; its narrative perspective is calmer and more introspective, and its literary technique pays greater attention to the metaphorical quality of scenes and the creation of atmosphere. Compared with the more personal emotional confessions in I Wish, this book carries a stronger sense of social observation.

Is the content too trivial or too negative?

On the surface it records trivial scenes, but the author's intent is to mine, through these fragments, the overlooked resilience, small connections, and quiet strength of modern life. There is loneliness between the lines, but the underlying tone is warmth and observation, not decadence or complaint.

Is it suitable as a gift?

It suits friends who love literature, have rich inner lives, and feel life with delicate sensitivity. The design is usually simple and elegant, and the content avoids the conventional, reflecting the giver's taste and care for the recipient's inner world.

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黄惠子 Author

Huang Huizi is an author included in the Chinese book database, but publicly available information about her remains limited: her nationality, dates of birth and death, and full writing career cannot be confirmed. The database holds one work by her, the social novel One Night Flight. Judging from the title and its classification, the book appears to use a flight or a night journey as its thread to observe social reality and portray the fates of its characters. Because verifiable information is scarce, her overall writing style is difficult to outline, yet the subject matter suggests that she attends to ordinary people's situations within social structures, likely using narrative to reveal tensions in human relationships and facets of contemporary life. On the evidence currently available, Huang Huizi is an author whom readers are only beginning to discover, and One Night Flight is the main entry point for understanding her literary orientation; should more works and materials emerge, her profile may become clearer.