The protagonist of the Light in August, Dong Shuhan, who was born in 2005 in Lianyungang and died in 2012, was my niece. She was diagnosed with the “congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis”, a rare terminal disease resulted from recessive mutation of chromosome, and there are no more than forty confirmed patients of it in the world.  One of the symptoms is total insensitivity to pain, which means the patients lose alertness to any harmful stimuli. Owing to her dislike of the flesh in the mouth, as she cut teeth, she decided to bite off her own tongue. Afterwards, she had experienced amputation, skin grafting, fracture of hipbone, skin ulcer as well as sustained fever, and finally, owing to the excessive consumption of febrifuge which was strictly prohibited by the government, she died of the visceral exhaustion. After her death, her father buried Shuhan in a place that no one else knows. In the name of art, introducing Shuhan to all of you is important to me in my life, I consider this as the way William Faulkner composed the character in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County in his fifteen writings. That’s why I named my work after William Faulkner’s novel “Light in August”, my attempt is to put the once beautiful, vigorous yet passed-away life into the starry sky again so as to enlighten you and me.