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This book introduces Mao Dun's editorial work and revolutionary activities during his ten years at the Commercial Press (1916-1926). It vividly reproduces the growth process of Mao Dun who entered the Commercial Press by chance and gradually transformed from a progressive young man into a staunch Marxist, from a small grader to the editor-in-chief of "Novel Monthly", and then raised the banner of China's new literature. The book mainly tells about Mao Dun's editing and translation contributions, his experience in organizing and leading the May 30th Movement, the Labor Movement in the Commercial Press, and his past literary debates with the Creation Society. The second and third volumes introduce the leaders and colleagues of the Commercial Press, as well as the contacts between young friends and idols and Mao Dun, comprehensively and three-dimensionally displaying Mao Dun's demeanor when he was at the Commercial Press, and telling the stories of Zhang Yuanji, Sun Yuxiu, Wang Yunwu, Gao Mengdan, Zhou Zuoren, Hu Shizhi and other elite intellectuals of the Republic of China from Mao Dun's perspective.