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This book "extracts more than 160 pictures about life conditions" from more than 4,000 images in "Dianshizhai Pictorial", recreating the former style of the first pictorial in the late Qing Dynasty. "Dianshizhai Pictorial" is developed with four major themes: "Chinese and foreign records", "officialdom", "gizhi compilation" and "prosperity at sea", and then explained and supplemented, so that all aspects of late Qing life are perfectly displayed in it. Chen Pingyuan and his wife jointly edited this book, which not only provides good information for those who study the history of the late Qing Dynasty, but also provides ordinary readers with a perspective on the late Qing Dynasty.

"Novel Theory Materials in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China" contains nearly 300 theoretical materials on novels from 1897 to 1916. The theory of novels in this period was both rich and poor. It was rich because it proposed many meaningful propositions, and it was poor because most of these new propositions were not well developed. However, these complex and superficial propositions contain infinite vitality. To some extent, they indicate the development direction of Chinese novels in the 20th century, and also indicate the difficulty of conceptual change. The editor took gold from the sand and selected a large number of historical materials, including essays, prefaces and postscripts, publication words, reviews, notes, advertisements, letters, and fragments and comments of individual works, to comprehensively and accurately reflect the overall picture of novel theory in this period.