The Forgotten Sea: Notes on Cross-border Art is a collection of dozens of interview notes, sketches, art comments and life essays from people in the cultural and art circles in the past decade, which are divided into four categories: sketching characters, literary comments, Kunqu notes and private space. It involves literature, painting, drama, film and television, architecture and even lifestyle, and cultural figures involved include director Tian Zhuangzhuang. Writers Bai Xianyong, Mu Xin, Su Tong, Ye, Bi Feiyu, Zhu Sujin, Han Dong, Huang Fan, Lu Min and Ge Liang; Artists Zhang, Ke Jun, Chen Danqing,,,,, Wu Xiangyun, Yao Yuan, Wu Sijun; Designers Zhu Yingchun, Su Taixi, Zhao Qing and Chen Weixin. They all try to sketch cultural figures and comment on literary works and cultural phenomena with their own unique perception and perspective. With the keen perception of intellectual women, the author outlines cultural figures, comments on literary works and cultural phenomena, and tells the spread story of Kunqu Opera in the past ten years, accompanied by a true record of the author's personal emotional world.
The series is also equipped with Lola's own sketches, which show the personality characteristics of the series with the natural embedding of "original soup and original juice", and is specially designed by Zhao Qing, a graphic designer who has won many international book design awards. Xu Jing, a famous calligrapher who wrote titles for directors such as Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai and Tsui Hark, was also invited to write titles for the book. At present, this book has won the title of "The Most Beautiful Book in China in 20 14".