China's Ghost Town Survivor Guide

In October 2022 he resigned from his job in Beijing, took a coach to a seaside town called Rushan Silver Beach, and rented a two-bedroom flat for four thousand yuan a year. The town was built for a million people. For ten months of the year, almost no one is there. This is the book about the four years that followed: how he gets by on about ten thousand yuan a year, where the rest of the money comes from, what a day looks like when nobody is waiting for you anywhere — and the question every reader asks first. Aren't you lonely? It is not a pitch for a cheap life. It says plainly that there is no work here, that winter is a decision and not a season, and that the quiet has a price. It is the real ledger of one real year, and an honest answer to what is left of a person once the job, the city and the timetable are taken away.