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This book is a collection of the author's papers on ancient Chinese novels and novelists. Divided into four volumes, Volume One explores the characteristics and value of the masterpieces of chapter novels from various angles. Volume 2 focuses on the study of the stylistic characteristics and evolution rules of story-telling novels. Volume Three mainly discusses the ideological concepts of ancient novelists and their impact on creation, and examines the authors and versions of the novels. Volume Four reviews the academic contributions and research personalities of several famous scholars who studied ancient novels.

This book is the final result of the National Social Science Fund Project "Research on Feng Menglong's Literary Activities" (Grant No. 08BZW042). Feng Menglong was a diligent and productive writer and scholar. He compiled seventy to eighty works in his life and left us tens of millions of words of works. His writings cover classics and history, poetry, drama, novels, folk songs, jokes and many other fields. The academic research on Feng Menglong focuses on the "Three Characters" and rarely touches on his chapter novels, classical Chinese novels, legends, folk songs and jokes. This result is of great significance for deepening Feng Menglong's research and expanding the research space of popular literature.