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Since 2015, the centenary commemorations of the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement have been ushering in. A century ago, the ideological and cultural innovation movement led by a generation of literati propelled China into the modernization process. From the sixth to sixteenth years of the Republic of China (1917 to 1927), China presented a situation of active thought and splendid culture comparable to the "Contending of a Hundred Schools of Thought" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The generation of elites of the Republic of China who inherited the traditional spirit of "scholarship" played a pioneering role in the turbulent current situation, and jointly raised the sky of Chinese culture.

This book is the brainchild of Mr. Wang Zhaoqian, a famous scholar, literary critic, and editor who has been engaged in professional literary editing, reading, and commenting for nearly 40 years on world literature. From the perspective of pure literary appreciation, criticism and creation, and from the perspective of human nature, history and aesthetics, Wang Zhaoqian carefully interprets more than one hundred Nobel Prize winners in literature since 1901 and their classic masterpieces, comprehensively presenting the glory and brilliance at the top of the world literature pyramid over the past century. Why did they win the award? Why do their works become classics? What contributions did they make to world literature? How do they live and create? One book can read more than 100 world literary classics over the past 100 years, and understand the lives and creative processes of more than 100 literary masters. They are - Tagore, Romain Rolland, Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, Hermann Hesse, Gide, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Pasternak, Sartre, Sholokhov, Kawabata Yasunari, Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Neruda, Marquez, William Golding, Oe Kenzaburo, Szymborska, José Saramago, Günter Grass, Naipaul, Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Hertha Miller, Llosa, Mo Yan, Alexeevich, Bob Dylan, Kazuo Ishiguro...

This book tells the story of the author's interactions with Chen Zhongshi, Alai, Zhang Wei, Gu Hua, Mo Yingfeng, Li Guowen (all six of them won the Mao Dun Literature Award), Wang Meng, Jiang Zilong, Ke Yunlu, Zhang Xianliang, Mo Yan, and Wang Shuo during his editing career. It also tells the story of the birth of the famous works of these contemporary Chinese literary masters. The author presents every detail of the joys and sorrows of creation while the writers contributed a rich literary picture to Chinese literature, as well as the literary heart and personality they displayed when they looked into the world and people's hearts and explored the human soul.