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How can the lively and flowing romance of Shanghai be transformed from the dust and smoke of history into the charm of the present? The changes over the decades in the cafes that have been regarded as urban living rooms, the streets that have never been widened to protect the memory of the city, the smells of Zhang Ailing, Bai Xianyong, Ke Ling, Fu Lei, and He Youzhi floating in the former residences of celebrities whose lives have changed, those foreign literary classics that are regarded as treasures by literary youths in the white paper era, the embarrassing past of the white paper era, those that have stared at us through the lens of French missionaries for more than a hundred years In the Shanghai of the past, there were still those fashionable women who quietly competed for beauty on Huaihai Road in the name of walking... The endless emotions of the vicissitudes of the world, the past and present lives of ordinary alleys, the contentment of worldly life... Chen Danyan's delicate and exquisite, sometimes vicious and sharp intuition not only has a calm sensibility, but also provides a contrasting contrast, taking readers back and forth between the past and present lives of Shanghai. "The Romance of Shanghai" has gone through four editions. According to the agreement between the author and the readers, new content and chapters will be added every five years. In this new edition, Chen Danyan added a new section to each chapter, adding the latest chapters from 2015 to 2020 based on the original open structure. The text has been increased by nearly 40,000 words, and dozens of new pictures have been added.

She is the daughter of old Shanghai movie star Shangguan Yunzhu, and her father Yao Ke is a cultural celebrity who returned from studying abroad. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She learned to hide her worries in her heart and put a smile on her face. During her childhood, she lived a prosperous life and played a guest role as a rich girl in the movie "The Wandering Story of San Mao". Later, her financial resources were almost cut off, but she refused to reveal her embarrassment in front of her lover and regarded love as a pure ivory tower. She is an ordinary person in the great era, enduring the tragic fate: her mother committed suicide, her lover committed suicide, her children were forced to give away, she smuggled across the border to avoid disaster but was arrested... When life seemed to be about to change, a car accident on Nanjing West Road forever fixed her life in the autumn of the year she was 31 years old. Her name is Yao Yao. He was born in troubled times in 1944 and died in 1975. When the book was republished in 2009, Kaikai found it, so the author added the part of the story that could not be confirmed in the first edition.

Is there a "No Chinese or Dogs Allowed" sign? How did the first park in modern China come into being? A complicated and confusing public case has created a park with a legendary life... The novel tells the story of the Public Garden, a park with a legendary life due to the famous public case that "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter", from its construction to the present 150 years ago. In the author's writing, missionaries, young survivors of the Manchu and Republic of China, Chinese and English mixed-races, experts on Shanghai history, residents of the Bund, and children of educated youth who returned to Shanghai... All the characters have an indissoluble bond with the park. A microcosm of the historical changes of the society... The book is illustrated with nearly 50 pictures, citing some precious information on the iconic topic of "garden rules". The pictures, notes and quotations become another extension of the novel's content; together with the story, they vividly reproduce the past and present life of public gardens.

"Chen Danyan's Shanghai", 180,000 words, more than 150 pictures. The book is divided into four parts: "Not a hometown, but a hometown", "Continuous flow", "The street that never widens", and "Marine national trend, Shanghai and Shenzhen modernity: Annotation of Shanghai fashion from the 1960s to the 1990s". Chen Danyan uses non-fiction writing to tell the story of moving and her parents' eight boxes, the story of pidgin English and Shanghai compradors, the story of never widening the streets to protect the memory of the city, the story of the young climber who likes to climb high and overlook Shanghai, the story of Ke Ling's former residence, the story of Fu Lei's former residence, the story of He Youzhi and his illustrations of old Shanghai, author 14 The story of the geography teacher when he was young, the story of the first TOEFL test in mainland China in 1981, and the story of the old Shanghai brand that created and maintained the dignity of daily life for the people of Shanghai and even the whole of China... These daily lives, folk memories and personal histories during Shanghai's century-old changes are the past and present of Shanghai in the eyes of a writer with rigorous research and unique writing. As one of the most important docks of the treaty port city in the 19th century and now an international metropolis, Shanghai's origins, its ambitions, its history of being connected to the world, and its respect for daily life are all the reasons why we love it in Chen Danyan's writings. Because the feeling of loving Shanghai is the feeling of loving the world. The book uses varied perspectives, calm sensibility, dense and delicate text, and pictures and texts to present a lively and flowing Shanghai with unique spiritual character in front of readers. It can be said that "Chen Danyan's Shanghai" has become a unique cultural business card, conveying the unique charm of Shanghai city and culture to China and the world.

She is the daughter of the boss of Shanghai Yongan Company. She studied at the famous Chinese and Western Girls' School when she was 6 years old, and graduated from the Psychology Department of Yenching University at the age of 24. Her father returned to China at the invitation of Sun Yat-sen to establish Shanghai's newest department store. Her second sister and Soong Meiling were close friends, and her best friend in college was Kang Youwei's granddaughter. She married at the age of 25, and her husband was a descendant of Lin Zexu's family. In the years that followed, she encountered the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Four Cleans-ups, and the Cultural Revolution. She experienced widowhood, house confiscation, and forced labor, leaving her completely destitute. But the ordeal did not make her resentful. She could still use an aluminum pot to bake Petersburg-style cakes on a briquette stove, and use a chicken brought back from the farm to make her son happy for a long time... When she died at the age of 90, she donated her body to the Red Cross in Shanghai, and the souvenir she received was a wreath with the word "90" woven from her white hair. Her name is Daisy, which means daisy in English.

The author uses the special perspective of "non-fiction" and "image" to tell the story of the past and present life of the Bund with Shanghai-style dense and delicate words, uncovering the mottled light and shadow of the Bund, a historical ship with rich connotations. In the author's writing, foreign expatriates who left the Bund by boat to escape the Chinese Civil War, Sam Tata, a foreign photographer who was born in Shanghai and photographed the Bund in 1949, and a mother who took her daughter to the site of the Shanghai General Assembly to pursue her childhood memories, claimed to "re-light the Bund" Li Jinghan, chairman of the Bund Three Federation, and the pidgin English that connected the commercial prosperity of the Bund during the concession period, the long night silence of the Bund in the 1950s, and the giant poster "Long Live the Great Unity of the Working People of the World" that appeared on the outer wall of the Friendship Store in 1966. The Lovers' Wall on the Bund in the 1970s and 1980s, the Bund renovation project in the 1990s... The dense details lay out the people and things that have had special experiences with the Bund, giving history a breath and warmth. There are more than 170 pictures in the book. The combination of visual expression and non-fiction narrative vividly reproduces the past and present legend of the Bund.

Chen Danyan's works have been popular for more than 20 years and have been widely praised at home and abroad. They have been translated into English, German, Japanese and other languages. "Ten O'clock Reading", well-known writer Yi Zhongtian, well-known media person Cao Jingxing, and well-known scholar Li Oufan jointly recommended it. Using details and historical facts as the latitude and longitude, and using non-fiction writing to talk about these people and those things, a vivid history of urban life is written. Chen Danyan's seven-part Shanghai series includes "Chen Danyan's Shanghai", "Becoming the Peace Hotel", "The Labyrinth of the Public Garden", "The Bund: Images and Legends", "Shanghai's Romance", "Shanghai's Golden Boughs and Jade Leaves" and "Shanghai's Beauty Legacy".

"Becoming the Peace Hotel", Chen Danyan's Bund series. The book takes one building as the main line and tells the past and present life of the Peace Hotel, a monumental building in Shanghai that is rich in symbolic significance and full of historical relics. The author intervenes in history in the form of non-fiction novels, using details and historical facts as the warp and weft, interweaving characters and stories to form a history of architectural life that is both true and imaginary. Becoming a "Peace Hotel" and a historical witness of Shanghai - Chen Danyan shows us the scenery of a building floating back and forth in time, and the silent but endless memory of a city in the turmoil...

Chen Danyan's non-fiction works record the true fate of female ancestors and explore the difficult balance between love and independence. Ayu, who had no chance to go to school, get married and have children, was trapped in her family all her life, giving her all to her family and raising three generations of children. She has no independent career and has been busy in the kitchen all her life, but with her soft heart, she taught Chen Danyan and others the ability to love, so that they can eventually become loved and protected people. In Ayu, Chen Danyan saw a powerful ability to love. She used everything she had to give love to others, and she also dared to ask for love from others despite her illness. She was also able to pass on this ability of love to everyone under her care, so that everyone could become a person who was willing to give love, be good at receiving love, and dare to ask for love. Reflecting on ourselves through Ayu's story, Chen Danyan raises a question to readers: Is it possible for us who are independent because of our careers to give love and teach others to love like Ayu who is dependent on family?

Chen Danyan's classic novel, an epic of female spiritual growth! The passion for life, the requirement to live an extraordinary life, and the feelings between men and women are all related to the relationship between fish and bicycles. Love to me is not skin-to-skin contact, it is not a vegetable or a meal, it is an immortal desire and a heroic dream in a tired life. 17-Year-old Wang Duolai is a girl who has just graduated from nursing school. She is ignorant and naive, unwilling to be ordinary. She only wants to have Prince Charming to save her from the mundane life... She keeps trying, keeps being disappointed, trying her best to fight against the mediocre fate, but in the end she is scarred. A story about a woman who never wanted to be ordinary. In an ordinary life, she never wanted to be mediocre.

"Two Ugly Monsters" is located on the edge of the small square of Saint-Germain. Among thousands of Parisian cafes, it has been featured in Paris guide books in various languages ​​because it is a famous writer's cafe on the Left Bank. The Paris literary circle even established a literary award here, also called "Two Ugly Monsters". In fact, those two ugly monsters were the two wooden statues in the shop, two Chinese men with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks, wearing Qing Dynasty clothes and growing treacherous mustaches. In the past, many writers and artists often went there to meet friends, read, talk and write. Geniuses who had not become famous sold their most important famous works to publishers here for pennies on the dollar.

Chen Danyan spent 20 years writing exclusive stories from museums around the world! Everyone feels that they have a bad memory, but human beings are really an animal that refuses to forget. He has lived day and night for thousands of years, generation after generation, and his most important spiritual life has been carefully preserved and stored in the best room. Not only should they be preserved, but they should also be seen by people who come after them, and they should also be illuminated with the calmest light. This is what museums and memorials now dot around the world. Human beings have a constant sense of shame buried in their hearts from generation to generation, which is the shame of forgetfulness and ignorance. Therefore, people who travel to a place usually dare not not visit the local museum, and dare not not hold their breath and walk slowly in the room where the past lives, look at the appearance of the past events one by one, and let them live in their hearts. But how do humans remember their own glory and shame? What kind of unspeakable secrets are hidden in my heart about the past?