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"Methodological Issues in Foreign Literature Research" is the first of the 12 volumes in "The Academic Process of Foreign Literature Research in China" and is one of the "General Discussions". The whole book involves two important issues in the study of foreign literature in my country in the past century: methodology and discourse transformation. The author of the manuscript has a high-level discussion on the methodological issues and discourse transformation issues of foreign literature research in my country over the past century, especially in the past thirty years. He has made a comprehensive review and concise review of the academic history of foreign literature research in my country, comprehensively summarized and analyzed the achievements of my country's foreign literature research, pointed out the existing problems and deficiencies in the research from a methodological perspective, looked forward to foreign literature research, and proposed the direction for future efforts.

"The Academic Process of Russian-Soviet Literature Research" is the seventh volume out of the total 12 volumes of "The Academic Process of Chinese Foreign Literature Research". This book is an academic historical research work. This book takes the century-old history of Russian-Soviet literature research as a clue and academic transformation as a theoretical framework. It conducts an in-depth investigation of the research situation of Russian-Soviet literature and takes a comprehensive look at the research on Russian-Soviet literature in China that has lasted for more than a hundred years.

Since the late Qing Dynasty, especially since the May 4th Movement, China has been subject to many powerful impacts from foreign cultures. Foreign literature has had a profound impact on the enlightenment of domestic people's thoughts, and the Sino-Russian literary relationship is an important part of it. The author of "Ten Lectures on Sino-Russian Literary Relations" integrated a large number of historical materials on literary exchanges between the two countries, sorted out the history of Chinese and Russian literary translation from the late Qing Dynasty to the 21st century, and conducted in-depth research on the comparison of writers' works, styles and schools, and the intersection of ideological trends between Chinese and Russian literature. The book is divided into ten chapters, unfolding in chronological order: the early beginnings of Sino-Russian literary relations-literary relations at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China-Russian literary upsurge during the May Fourth Movement-early Soviet literature and Chinese left-wing literature-Russian-Soviet literature in China in the 1940s-Russian-Soviet literature in China in the 1950s-the frozen period of literary relations in the 1960s-Russian-Soviet literature in the early stages of reform and opening up-Sino-Russian literature after the collapse of the Soviet Union-Sino-Russian literary relations at the beginning of the 21st century.

"The Phantom of the Violet: Zhou Shojuan and Shanghai Literature and Culture, 1911-1949" is a cross-border legend about the life of Zhou Shojuan, the founder of the "Saturday School" and the leader of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School". "The Phantom of the Violet" is rich in information and beautiful pictures: novels, movies, newspapers, magazines, original works, translations, violets, Saturdays - a person, a relationship, several ups and downs, several looks back, the bizarre Shanghai beach, the complicated social life... Zhou Shoujuan was one of the founders of the "Saturday School" of popular literature during the Republic of China, and a famous translator, writer, publisher and film critic. In his ideological work, Shojuan practiced the reform idea of ​​"combining the old and the new" and blended the quintessence of Chinese culture with Westernization. His novel creation praises "noble and pure" love, and sympathizes with women and disadvantaged groups. In form, he pays equal attention to classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese, inherits the Chinese lyric tradition, and draws on Western novel techniques. It has aesthetic value that can be appreciated by both refined and popular people. He introduced Western film concepts through "shadow novels" and made important contributions to early Chinese films. The love legend between Zhou Shoujuan and Ziluolan is a mixture of fact and fiction, reflecting the complexity of love, marriage and family during the Republic of China. At the same time, Zhou and his colleagues built Violet into a literary magazine brand, using the aesthetic appeal of traditional famous flowers and beauties to create the image of fashionable girls, thereby spreading modern material civilization and bringing longing for a better tomorrow to the public.

"The Academic History of Literature Research in Asian and African Countries" is the 12th volume out of the total 12 volumes of "The Academic History of Chinese Foreign Literature Research". This volume mainly introduces the literary situation of various countries in Asia and Africa except Japan and India (these two countries have separate separate books due to their large length). This book introduces the main literary works and writers in the region from ancient times to the present, covering a wide time span; it also lists and reviews the writings and papers that study the works of these writers. Japan, Europe, America and Asia have always been the focus of world literature history, while descriptions of Asia and Africa (except Japan and India) are very rare. This book's detailed and systematic discussion of this region highlights its important academic value.

"Hundred Flowers Tan Wencong: Echoes of Spiritual Atmosphere" is the personal literary narrative of the famous scholar and poet Chen Jianhua. "Spiritual atmosphere" comes from Benjamin's word "aura", which has many translations, some as "aura", some as "halo", etc. Chen Jianhua prefers to translate it as "spiritual atmosphere", which has a kind of bewilderment leading to ancient times, and a kind of sigh of a person who awakens the world by "searching up and down". This book has obvious features, including literary memories from the 1960s, fragments of memories from the 1970s, and what I saw, heard, and felt when I returned to Shanghai in the 1990s. Although it is a reminiscence article, it contains the thinking of modern people, has a broad vision, sees things no one has seen before, and blends literature and history to enlighten people's minds. "

This book is a collection of nostalgic essays written by Professor Chen Jianhua. It contains 11 essays in total, in memory of the author's deceased teachers and friends Liu Jigao, Jia Zhifang, Zhang Peiheng, Zhang Hui, Ji Xian, Han Nan, Zhu Yulin, Zhao Jingshen, Wei Feide, Zhou Cezong, Wang Jingyu, Mizoguchi Yuzo, Jin Yong and other famous academic and cultural figures. The prose content mostly describes the acquaintance process between the author and the famous writers, and also discusses the profound impact of the academic achievements and literary concepts of the famous writers on the author's academic career. The title of the book is taken from Chen Yinke's "Feng Yi's Life Between Teachers and Friends", "to express my admiration and respect for the senior scholars who are lucky enough to be close to each other, and also to encourage my colleagues to pass on the torch." Sometimes people can only resist the encoding and ritual of mourning with silence; sometimes politics must emerge from the recoding of mourning in order to resist another kind of oppression of mourning. Whether as a poet or a scholar, Chen Jianhua always pays close attention to the weeping subjects and the heroes singing and building.

"Lingbo Weiyu" is selected from the author's academic essays over the past 20 years, 25 essays with approximately 180,000 words, published in "Book City", "Essays", "Book House" and other magazines. The content includes book reviews of modern literature masterpieces such as Fujii Shozo's "Lu Xun's Hometown" and Liu Jianmei's "Revolution and Love", as well as the book preface to Zhang Peiheng's "No Beijing, No Sea Collection" to elaborate on Mr. Zhang's scholarly style and characteristics. An interview with Mr. Zhang Hao discusses the "transformation" of China's "revolution" in modern times. The article "Imagination of Empire, Revolution and Republic in the Late Qing and Early Republic of China" is a conversation with Mr. Li Oufan, which has been widely reprinted. There are also prefaces to the author's own books such as "The Carved Cage and the Firebird", "From Revolution to Republic", "Ancient and Modern Times and Cross-borders", "Phantom of the Violet", etc., Covering modern China. "Exploring the "Literary Mind" in the Complexity of History", "The Literary Mind Flying, the Clouds and Sunshines" and "Lingbo Weiyu - Talking about the Joys and Sufferings of Bilingual Writing" discuss the various opportunities and challenges encountered in the research process. In terms of methodology, they involve a wide range of interdisciplinary issues such as historical materials and theories, text and interpretation, and literary culture.