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This is a collection of philosophical and interesting essays written by Mr. Yang Jiang when he was 96 years old. By thinking about fundamental issues such as destiny, life, life and death, spirit and body, Mr. Yang pointed out that the value of life lies in cultivating and perfecting oneself in accordance with the requirements of "spiritual conscience". With her profound and unique experience, the courage to write straightly and her vivid and full writing style, she provides guidance to those who are helpless due to lack of faith in real life.

"Taking a Bath" is a novel that reflects the ideological transformation of intellectuals in New China. It uses a political movement as a background to describe all kinds of intellectuals in that period: they indeed need transformation, but what is the effect of transformation? The novel is called the new "The Scholars" in modern Chinese literature.

This is Mr. Yang Jiang's work of remembering people and remembering the past. Part of it is about missing people, "from being very close to being very distant"; part is about reminiscing about things, "from being deeply touched to being indifferent". Others were picked up from old manuscripts. Originally published by Huacheng Publishing House, some articles were added in 1994 and republished by Sanlian Bookstore. This time, it is republished based on the prose volume "Miscellaneous Yiyu Miscellanies" in the "Collected Works of Yang Jiang" published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2009. Those people and things mentioned in detail give people not only the enjoyment of beautiful articles, but also a vivid way of understanding various characters of an era.

Yang Jiang is a famous translator and literary critic, as well as a famous essayist. "Yang Jiang's Prose" contains a total of 18 representative prose works and literary essays by Yang Jiang. Yang Jiang's prose mostly uses line drawing to recall past events or describe the life experiences of relatives, friends, and individuals. They are fresh, timeless, expressive, and profound in meaning. Readers can further understand the writer's inner world and the unique features of the historical era she has experienced through the creation of Yang Jiang's prose. The "Yang Jiang Prose" published this time is a version confirmed and approved by Yang Jiang during his lifetime. It has a certain degree of authority and is also a rare selection of Yang Jiang's prose.

This book contains seven essays by Mr. Yang Jiang: "Fielding's Theory of Novel", "On Thackeray's Vanity Fair", "Art and Overcoming Difficulties", "Li Yu on Dramatic Structure", "Facts-Stories-Truth", "New Interpretations of Old Books", "What's Good", and two other translator's forewords "Gil Blass" Translator's Foreword or Preface "" "Little Leper" Preface to the Translation, and another article "Don Quixote and "Don Quixote"" relatively comprehensively presented Mr. Yang Jiang's understanding of the famous work she translated. Later, after adding a brief introduction to the author Cervantes and the translated version one by one, the article was published as the "Translator's Preface" to the Chinese version of "Don Quixote".

The first edition of "Miscellaneous Memories and Miscellaneous Writings" contains more than 30 articles by Yang Jiang on nostalgia for the past, as well as more than 20 articles including prefaces and forewords written by the author for his own or other people's works, as well as the author's speeches, speeches, and essays with reflections. These articles are touching and thought-provoking to read. This updated edition contains more than twenty new articles compared to the first edition, most of which were written by the author after he was ninety years old. They may be more than 100 years old or hundreds of years short. They all reflect the generosity and wisdom of an old man who has experienced the world, and his emotions are rich and natural. The naturalness of his writing is even more perfect.

"Taking a Bath" is a novel written by Yang Jiang. The novel is based on the first ideological reform movement of intellectuals after liberation, and tells the exploration and changes in the spiritual world of intellectuals in the early days of liberation in Peking. This group of intellectuals includes those who stayed in the country after liberation, some who returned from Britain, the United States, France and Russia to join the bright future, some are writers, some are literary and art cadres from the liberated areas, and some have just graduated from university, etc. They all have different purposes and their own concerns. Yang Jiang uses her always calm and restrained writing style to describe their various mentalities, situations and disputes between them. The novel presents a true historical record and also describes various situations in the world.

This book is a collection of Mr. Yang Jiang's works, including the author's 7 books, namely "The Three of Us", "Six Notes on the Cadre School", "The "Invisible" Visitor", "About Tea", "Phaedo", "Miscellaneous Memories and Miscellaneous Writings: 1933-1991", "Miscellaneous Memories and Miscellaneous Writings: 1992-2013".

The title and chapters of "Six Chapters of the Cadre School" are derived from "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" written by Shen Fu during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty. Qian Zhongshu said in the small introduction at the front of the book: "Remember labor", "Remember leisure", remember this, remember that, they are just small embellishments of this big background, small interludes of the big story. It is worth noting how this book reflects the big background with small embellishments and tells big stories with small interludes. This is also the fun of reading this book. During the Cultural Revolution, there was political chaos and constant criticism and struggle. At the top level of politics, this is originally a movement to seize power. What pervades the country is a situation of mutual suspicion, reporting to each other, and even civil and military conflicts. In this movement, human dignity was not only completely lost, but also greatly distorted. It can be said to be the most painful history of blood and tears in modern China.

This collection of essays by Mr. Yang Jiang is smooth, simple, and humorous. It looks like a record of life, but it contains profound writing skills. This book was first published by Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore in 1987. After its publication, it was deeply loved by the intellectual community and readers, and became a prose classic. In this reprint, the article "Adscript to the Collection of Fifteen Years" has been added. At the same time, an appendix has been added after the article "Remembering My Father", that is, "The Punishment Case of Chief Prosecutor Gao During the Defense".