失落的卫星：深入中亚大陆的旅程

Once a mighty empire, it vanished overnight.
Following the setting sun, where statues fell, seek the lost heart of Central Asia.
Over nine years, writer Liu Zichao repeatedly ventured deep into the heart of Asia, traveling to the mysterious neighboring countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. In this land on the edge of the world, sandwiched between great powers, he embarked on a journey of discovery between past and future.
Racing along national borders, bypassing scattered enclaves, galloping through the Pamir no-man's-land, and breaking down at a Soviet nuclear test site, he witnessed isolated lands with an explorer's spirit; treading the golden road of Samarkand, wandering through bloody battlefields and imperial palaces, gazing at blood-stained sacred books, and touching the stupas described by Xuanzang, he sought to recapture the gaze of the ancients; befriending a Tajik youth who pins his hopes on the Chinese language, meeting a Chinese man stranded in the Aral Sea for seven years, and in Uzbekistan at midnight, hearing merchants clinking glasses and shouting as they threw banknotes into the air: "Everything you saw before was an illusion, this is reality!" Along the way, he met people from all walks of life, wavering between hope and disappointment, freedom and confusion.
Everything is like a derailed satellite, ambiguous and lost, full of vitality, loneliness, and struggle. We are right next door, yet completely unaware—until the journey began, until this book was opened.