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The author Chen Zishan has been engaged in the study of modern Chinese literary history for a long time and is committed to the research and teaching of Chinese literary historical materials in the 20th century. He once participated in the annotation work of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" and later made important contributions to the excavation, arrangement and research of the works of important modern writers such as Zhou Zuoren, Yu Dafu, Liang Shiqiu, Tai Jinnong, Ye Lingfeng, Zhang Ailing and Chen Zhifan. This manuscript is a collection of research papers on Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren that Chen Zishan has published over the years, and has certain academic value.

In the field of modern Chinese literary history research, Mr. Chen Zishan is well-known for his excavation and textual research of historical materials. He has previously written "Drunken in the Spring Breeze: The Pursuit of Yu Dafu and Others", "Drunken in the Crescent Moon: The Discovery of Liang Shiqiu and Others", "A Congsuo of Zhang Ailing", etc. Most of the articles compiled in this book are his new historical discoveries in the field of research on Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Yu Dafu, Zhang Ailing and other writers in recent years. The book is divided into five parts, namely "Lu Xun and his literary friends", "Hu Shi, Xinyue and the Beijing School", "Zhang Ailing and her contemporary writers", "Old School" writers 23", "Preface and postscript and others". The author starts from the perspective of the interactions and correspondence between these writers and their contemporaries, starting from the details, verifying historical facts, analyzing documents, and depicting new scenes inside and outside literary history.

"Collection at a Glance" is a collection of various texts written by the famous scholar Mr. Chen Zishan on Hong Kong literature and Hong Kong writers. Hong Kong literature is rich and colorful, with remarkable achievements, shining brightly on the Chinese literary world. The author has studied Hong Kong literary works and got to know Hong Kong writers. This book can be regarded as the author's personal reading history of Hong Kong literature and the history of his interactions with some Hong Kong writers. All the works he talks about are famous works and literary and historical anecdotes. They are rich, vivid, concise, and highly readable. Through the narration of representative works and anecdotes of representative writers and researchers in modern and contemporary Hong Kong literary circles such as Tse Chenguang, Cao Juren, Yip Lingfeng, Song Qi, Luo Fu, Jin Yong, Liu Shaoming, Chua Lam, etc., We have seen a profile and cross-section of the history of Hong Kong literature. More than 40 rare and exquisite calligraphy and shadow pictures are compiled and inserted in the book to match the text. The combination of text and pictures adds a lot to the book.

Chen Zishan is famous for discovering new literary and historical materials, and is good at textual research and editing of essays. "Hundred Flowers Collection: Symphony on Paper" shows another aspect of Chen Zishan's cultivation - classical music. Most of the articles collected are short and exquisite, and it initially sorts out the various factors between modern writers and classical music from the 1920s to the 1940s. It focuses on the relationship between Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Xu Zhimo, Shen Congwen, Liu Rongen, Zhang Ailing, Zhao Luorui, Fu Lei, etc. And classical music. The writing style is lively, the story is about history, and it not only gives people knowledge but also the enjoyment of beauty.

"Bu Diary Volume 2" is the second collection published after "Bu Diary". "No Diary" is the name of Mr. Chen Zishan's column in "Wenhui Po·Pen Club". As the name suggests, "It is not a diary written every day." The column content mostly records the author's interactions with writers and celebrities, as well as elegant events in the literary world. Mr. Chen said that "the topics are relatively focused, and I have a brief understanding of the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, especially the excavation of historical materials, from a micro level" and "occasionally talk about my own interests and hobbies, such as Western music." This book also comes with 22 photos and manuscripts of first editions and printed works of modern writers. The cover picture shows Mr. Chen Zishan's cat Chen Duo, and there is a kitten bookplate on the title page for readers to enjoy.

The book "Zhejiang Ji·Silverfish Essays" written by Chen Zishan has written about forty-nine modern writers from Zhejiang. Regardless of the length of the article, each one has one article in order to treat them equally. These articles are not a comprehensive review of the literary paths of these forty-nine Zhejiang writers or a detailed analysis of their representative works, but rather a review of a certain historical fact in their literary careers, an excavation of an unknown collection of their essays, or an explanation of selected editions of their works, etc.

Mr. Chen Zishan's latest collection of essays. This book covers important modern writers and schools such as Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, the Crescent School, Zhang Ailing, Qian Zhongshu, and Yu Dafu. In Chen Zishan's research and writing, celebrities and people are no longer just people in the cold pile of old papers, but their style and taste are vividly displayed on the page. The research done by Mr. Chen Zishan is to gradually trace the appearance of the writer and his works, restore the true history, and at the same time turn it into a fun experience.