Introduction to the "Illustrated Book of Chinese Literati" Series
This is a soul-to-soul confrontation that spans thousands of years.
We firmly believe that those literati who light up the literary sky should not just be flat names and works in textbooks. They had body temperatures, hobbies, weaknesses, and late-night cries that could not be explained to outsiders. Their works are the blood, fire and starlight splashed out by their lives under extreme circumstances.
The "Illustrated Book of Chinese Literati" series aims to complete an affectionate "resurrection" in the style of historical and psychological novels. Each volume focuses on a literati, with solid historical materials as their bones and reasonable literary imagination as their vitality. It penetrates the dust of time and reaches the moment of their choice, the ecstasy of creation and the desolation of death.
This series does not stick to a uniform word count. The "core series" of 20,000 to 30,000 words is like a precise scalpel, cutting open the most colorful cross-section of his life; the "special chapter" of 40,000 to 50,000 words is like unfolding a long scroll, going deep into the hinterland of those souls with particularly complicated fates. Seven parts historical facts, three parts fiction, we strictly adhere to the boundaries of history, but dare to light the candles in those silent places in the history books.
From Qu Yuan's chanting by the river, to Lu Xun's late night smoking; from Li Bai's drunken fishing for the moon, to Nalan's snowstorm outside the tent... What we are trying to build is not only a set of literary biography, but also a spiritual palace built with stories, so that people today and the ancients can deeply resonate with the eternal topics of talent, courage, vulnerability and transcendence.
When you open this book, you will no longer meet symbols, but people who have truly loved, hated, struggled, and shined in their respective eras.
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