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Of her literary works, " Love and Revolution " ( Chinese title: 行道天涯 ; The Chinese version first came out in 1995, while the English version was published by Columbia University Press in 2006 ) attracted the most attention.

Ms. Lu re-imagines the lives of Sun Yat-sen and Song Qingling, a legendary couple in modern China.

She not only explores their marital relations, including their failings and desires, but also mentions Sun Yat-sen's political career and Song Qingling's feelings of isolation and loneliness after her husband died.

As Perry Link pointed out in his article entitled " Chinese Shadows " ( published on November 16, 2006, by The New York Review ), Ms. Lu also tries to find in Song Qingling " the person buried under all the layers of image-making " and to " reconstruct a credible portrait " of the famous woman.

He also said Ms. Lu " succeeds in showing the ordinary and sometimes repugnant details of Qingling's life ," and that she " may or may not be accurate about Qingling's inner life, but she certainly writes with honesty and with penetration.