The impression of China experienced by the Japanese literary giant and "ghost" writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke was vividly translated by Shi Xiaowei, the translator of Haruki Murakami's "1Q84". "Travel Notes on China" is a multi-genre travel note written by the Japanese literary giant and "genius" writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa after he traveled to China in 1921, commissioned by the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. The language in the book is highly readable and full of changes. It is a mixture of spoken and classical Chinese, and is varied; the genre covers scripts, letters, dialogues, notes and other literary styles, with a mixture of fiction and reality, making it quite refreshing to read. Ryunosuke Akutagawa's unique and clever writing style, which refuses to fall into the mold of others, makes this travelogue less of a dull straightforward narrative and description of scenery, and more of a literary and even comic style of writing to express the emotions and thoughts triggered by his experience of China in his sensitive heart. After a long period of careful and expressive translation, the famous translator Shi Xiaowei fully reproduced the style of the original work and perfectly displayed the changes in language and body of Ryunosuke Akutagawa in the translation. In addition to its literary value, this book also retains records of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's visits to celebrities such as Zhang Binglin, Zheng Xiaoxu, and Gu Hongming, which is of high historical value.
