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Peking University students who are addicted to classical poetry and Western literature have swayed and submerged in the torrent of the times, and eventually became leaders in the study of Chinese literature. "Collected Essays of Le Daiyun" brings together Mr. Le's recollections of his sixty-year career at Peking University. It imprints the ups and downs of social changes, finds the path of interconnection between generations and cultures, and also reflects the connection between generations and distant cultures.

This book is a collection of the author's teaching and thinking on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary literary research in the more than ten years since he published "Comparative Literature and Modern Chinese Literature" in 1987. It includes three parts: the tradition of "facing the new era of cross-culture and interdisciplinary" and "reinterpreting contemporary literature and culture in modern interpretation". It contains more than forty articles by the author, covering many aspects of cross-cultural research, such as cultural transformation and the new humanistic spirit, cultural relativism and comparative literature, discourse issues in the dialogue between Chinese and Western poetics, etc.

This book contains forty essays by Mr. Le Daiyun, divided into five series: Part One, "Nostalgia and Nostalgia" and "Dream-like Water God" are cultural talks, exploring nostalgia, nostalgia and water god worship in traditional culture. The second volume, "Dragonfly", "Farewell Hometown, Farewell Mountain City" and "My Choice, My Memories", are of a reminiscence nature, recalling the mischievousness of scaring English teachers with soybean bugs in the early years. The third volume recalls parents, relatives, and the Chinese language teacher in middle school. The chapter "Gide and Zhang Ruoming" recounts Zhang Ruoming, a scholar who studied in France. The fourth collection is reading notes. Among them, several articles written by reading "Shishuo Xinyu" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" talk about the free and easy feelings of celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties who were not burdened by material things and were free and comfortable. The stone at the beginning of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is not only an opportunity for narrative, but also has many implications in terms of expressing the theme and portraying the characters. The several prefaces written for others in the fifth volume are also meaningful and skillful.