Mei Ye 
Last Chieftain 

In the fierce cultural clashes between "outsiders" and "Tujia people", flame-like love and hate tortures everyone involved.Ye Mei describes the changes of Tujia cultural traditions, emotional life and chieftain system, in an exquisite and vivid style of writing.In her writings there is flowing the blood of Tujia nationality, narrating the legend of Daba Mountain. As a Tujia native novelist, Ye Mei has never averted her eyes from Dachan Moutain she is familiar with.The narrative focus of almost all of her works is concentrated on the Tujia people in the mountains.In her novella There Is a Hole in the Mountain, Ye Mei reveals the power struggle between the chieftains, writes out the transformation and the end of the chieftain system, and shows the great changes in the lifestyle of the new generation of Tujia people; The Last Chieftain describes the cultural conflicts and reconciliation between "outsiders" and "Tujia people", and depicts the cultural habits and emotional life of Tujia people in a meticulous and vivid way; the story in Longchuan River of Sayou is filled with sad and heaviness, containing a strong emotional conflict and a sharp moral theme.