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This book contains 13 articles accumulated and interviewed by the author over the years, as well as 11 "notes" recalling interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. The articles are all "famous actors" in modern and contemporary literary circles that readers are familiar with: Yu Pingbo, Shen Congwen, Lao She, Ding Ling, Zhao Shuli, Guo Xiaochuan, Wang Zengqi, Haoran, Yan Wenjing, etc. Based on the oral accounts of the parties involved, as well as a large number of files, meeting records and oral historical materials, it truly reproduces the true face of the Chinese literary world after 1949, as well as the painful mental journeys of many writers when the general environment changed. These powerful and formidable true records bring to life those dusty past events, so that we can also feel the ups and downs and changes of that era.

These 11 professors are all "under the emperor's feet" who have the most eyes on the typhoon. Yu Pingbo, Wang Yao, Fu Ying, Zhou Peiyuan, He Lin, Ma Yinchu, Tang Yongtong, Feng Youlan, and Feng Ding are all "leading figures" in Peking University, while Mr. Cai Xu and Chen Yuan work at Beijing Agricultural University and Beijing Normal University respectively. The description here is based on the records of official materials and a large number of original files at that time, restoring the old "landscape". Although half a century has passed, it is not a personal memory like "the past is like smoke" or "a fleeting shadow", but has the meaning of a historical fossil. The fate of these 11 professors reflects the fate of Chinese intellectuals. It also epitomizes the tragedy of Chinese education and Chinese culture. It is also a tragic scene in Chinese history.