In the beginning, there was peace—and the Cheng Clan was chosen to guard that peace against chaos and disorder for at least two millennia (PHOENIXA: THE ONE《鳳子》). Set within a genre-bending epic of myth, memory, and transcendence, the PHOENIXA Saga unfolds across generations, worlds, and timelines, following Phoenixa’s journey from an unsettling yet still fantastical childhood in Maoist China (PHOENIXA: THE NEST《鳳巢》), to a thrilling and uncanny odyssey across a free yet eerily familiar America, where she encounters both heroes and demons (PHOENIXA: THE FLIGHT《鳳飛》), and finally to a long-awaited homecoming to China, confronting the dark fate of the Cheng Courtyard in the heart of a sprawling metropolis at the turn of the 21st century (PHOENIXA: THE RETURN《鳳歸》).
Throughout the centuries, a mysterious, chameleon-like cosmic force known as P.H.O.E.N.I.X.A. has remained at work across the skies wherever she journeys, delivering both prophecy and doom. Yet it is only when Phoenixa turns to consult the spirit of her grandfather that she comes to possess the power to decipher—and perhaps reverse—the consequences not only of her own destiny, but of mankind itself.
程一若英文小说《鳳程》神話傳奇文學系列曲宛如一首即波瀾壯闊又細膩入微的自傳體史詩；《鳳巢》《鳳飛》《鳳歸》通過一個中國小女乘鳳穿越現代中國風暴進入上古神話善惡靈界和宇宙多維時空， 通過兒時搖籃記憶/青春反叛追求自由/中年回歸救贖的三個階段的成長，表達抵禦強權追求真理和平與精神重生的主題。作者程一若以“神秘现实主义”的风格，靈性遨遊自然/超自然的多維時空。程延尋覓祖先的精神脈絡深入人类的潜意识，探寻呼唤險惡亂世中人性的大善與良知。小说充滿视觉震撼和豐富的奇幻的元素，梦幻般的情节跌宕起伏層層揭開了中国的神秘面纱，為中西讀者破译現代中國照亮了一个恢宏内擴的全新视角。<br>
In the beginning, there was peace—and the Cheng Clan was chosen to guard it (PHOENIXA: THE ONE《鳳子》), as the PHOENIXA Saga unfolds across generations, worlds, and timelines in a genre-bending epic of myth, memory, inner demons, and transcendence, following Phoenixa’s journey from an enchanted childhood in suppressed China (PHOENIXA: THE NEST《鳳巢》), to a thrilling, uncanny odyssey across a free yet eerily familiar America (PHOENIXA: THE FLIGHT《鳳飛》), to a fateful homecoming confronting the dark destiny of the Cheng Courtyard (PHOENIXA: THE RETURN《鳳歸》)—all driven by P.H.O.E.N.I.X.A, an ancient, ever-shifting force of creation and transformation.
程一若英文小说《鳳程》神話傳奇文學系列曲宛如一首即波瀾壯闊又細膩入微的自傳體史詩；《鳳巢》《鳳飛》《鳳歸》通過一個中國小女乘鳳穿越現代中國風暴進入上古神話善惡靈界和宇宙多維時空， 通過兒時搖籃記憶/青春反叛追求自由/中年回歸救贖的三個階段的成長，表達抵禦強權追求真理和平與精神重生的主題。作者程一若以“神秘现实主义”的风格，靈性遨遊自然/超自然的多維時空。程延尋覓祖先的精神脈絡深入人类的潜意识，探寻呼唤險惡亂世中人性的大善與良知。小说充滿视觉震撼和豐富的奇幻的元素，梦幻般的情节跌宕起伏層層揭開了中国的神秘面纱，為中西讀者破译現代中國照亮了一个恢宏内擴的全新视角。<br>
In the beginning, there was peace—
and the Cheng Clan was chosen to guard it…All stars,
all spirits,
all gods,
and all beings
abided in sacred peace –
until the Unnamed stirred
創世之初
陰陽交匯
萬物和合
宇宙大同
鳳族守道
闢世開天
未名初動
Rising from the ashes of her ancestors, Phoenixa, the six-and-a-half-year-old kite-flying, Phoenix-riding, Chinese girl embarks on a mystical journey into China’s tumultuous past, searching for her Renaissance Grandpa who read to her Shan Hai Jing, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, seeking cures for human greed and a lost path to peace.
北京四合院里，六岁半小女孩凤儿手捧《山海经》展开了一场精神出走的神秘旅程。爱放风筝喜歡乘凤飞天的她在祖父的儒学与自由精神的启蒙教育下，穿行上古奇幻世界和现代中国的动荡风云寻找治愈人类贪婪的解药;
When the inheritance is devastatingly lost, what’s left of the Cheng legacy? Phoenixa, sole heir of a noble clan a century in the making, confronts this fate as a young woman in pursuit of a forbidden dream, the American dream. Soon emerged a glittering skyline of concrete towers, shimmering with promise and allure. Oh, the lure of youth! It came like a summer storm, sudden, electric, and impossible to escape…
鳳兒少年的精神出走此刻變成日行千里的東鳳西飛。這是一個全新的現實冒險，追求獨立的異國旅程。因羈絆而騷動不安的靈魂如出籠的鳥抖落翅膀的灰塵一躍升空飛向自由的天空。渾然間，美國夢的呼喚與青春的誘惑錯綜交織，在她落地的一剎那，一位說著中文的金髮碧眼英俊青年闖入她的視線和她至今堅守的私密的空間
Back to the sprawling metropolis of the mellinniual Beijing, Phoenixa, in her 40s, after two decades of self-exile in America, returns home upon learning of her father’s passing. Phoenixa is shocked to face Mark, her American lover at Qianfu#6, and her childhood girl friend, Liling. Together, they engage in a battle preserving the endangered Cheng Courtyard against the secret power of annihilation.
21世紀千禧之初，喧囂的大都市北京迎來了在美自我放逐二十餘載的鳳。她在驚聞父親逝世後立返久違的家 。辦完喪事，鳳來到原來程家四合院舊址，沒想到與美國情人重逢，一場跨國戀情恩怨與拆遷大潮的洶湧澎湃交織跌宕，祖先在看，根在呼喚，鳳將何去何從…