This early version from Yang Jiechang's 'Stranger than Paradise' series transforms the European paradise tradition by applying classical Chinese painting technique to provocatively reimagined content. The composition is dominated by a subtle, atmospheric landscape of stratified rock formations in muted earth tones and blue-greens framing a luminous central passage. At this threshold, a woman is forcefully taken from behind by a moose, positioned prominently at the painting's focal point. Tigers, zebras, leopards and other species are scattered throughout the cliffs and shadows, also engaged in sexual encounters. Rendered in traditional Chinese painting style on silk, Yang depicts a visceral paradise where species hierarchies collapse – an allegory for boundary dissolution and cross-cultural exchange in an interconnected world.