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This book belongs to the "Japanese Knowledge Series" series and is an academic essay by the famous comparative literature scholar Lu Jiande. The book contains 20 papers, book reviews, prefaces, reading notes, essays, speeches and commemorative articles written by the author, together with 21 appendices. The title of the book "Wujie" means "the field of books has no boundaries". In the book, the author uses a broad vision and comparative literature research methods to evaluate academic works in different fields such as world literature, modernism, and cultural exchanges between China and the West. The content includes book reviews of world literature and world history works that have been newly translated and introduced in recent years, the introduction and introduction of new concepts in foreign literary criticism, and a discussion of Sino-Western cultural exchanges starting from the translated works of the period when Western learning spread to the East.

This manuscript contains five main texts and one appendix. The first four of them mainly discuss the value and thoughts of the works of Lin Shu, a famous modern writer and translator. The last one records the "dialogue" between Yan Fu and Liang Qichao about national governance before and after the War to Protect the Country. The appendix is ​​an interview that records the author's views and opinions on national governance in the early years of the Republic of China.