Renmin daodi xu bu xuyao sangna

人民到底需不需要桑拿 (lit. "Do the People Really Need Saunas?")

By Zhu Wen, published by Shaanxi Normal University Press in January, 2000.

Zhu Wen’s fourth collection of short stories, circa 2000. The title story - a tale of a retired man who undertakes a survey of the city's saunas in an effort to determine whether or not the people really need so many of them - is one of the most charming pieces Zhu Wen has ever written. Despite his hipster street cred, Zhu Wen proves himself capable of getting into the mind of an elderly but lovable curmudgeon.