Knight Riders of the Year: Literati and Scholars in Modern China (updated Edition)

About This Novel

"The Knights of the Year - Literati and Scholars of Modern China" is a collection of biographies, which includes 29 biographies (including four "appendices") of 25 people who have made achievements in the fields of literature, culture, and education from the late Qing Dynasty to modern times. The book is divided into three volumes. The first two volumes describe the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty and the May Fourth Movement respectively, while the third volume recalls the teachers who led the author on the academic path. The order of arrangement of each article is based on the birth year of the author. Different from biographies written by writers, which focus on storytelling, the author is a scholar, and what he records and discusses are mostly "profiles", which all contain the author's personal feelings and academic discoveries, with a distinct "academic essay" color. Therefore, although the author defines the intended readers as "the public", here (as the author puts it), the scope of the "public" may be accurately defined as readers with certain cultural accomplishments and literary and historical background. If you cannot supplement the background knowledge of the "one point is not as good as the rest" during the reading process, you will not be able to understand the spirit, temperament and taste of the protagonist, as well as the literary color revealed between the lines of the author's words. In this update, two articles commemorating teachers from Sun Yat-sen University have been deleted, and eight new articles have been added to discuss Su Manshu, Jiang Menglin, Zhang Jingsheng, Qian Mu, Zhu Ziqing, and Jin Yong.

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