As a major role of this book, Shen Congwen is one of the most outstanding litterateurs as well as a famous cultural history expert in the 20th century in China. This book focuses on the following points:
   1. Basic comprehension of Shen Congwen and his literature, ideas and cultural practices which reverberates in the last hundred years and this century
   2. The introduction to Shen Congwen¡¯s study on cultural relics, and the emphasis of this part is the internal consistency between his literary and antiquarian work
   3. The discussion of Shen Congwen¡¯s influence on Chinese contemporary literature through specific contemporary works.

This book includes the author¡¯s most important works in recent years. It not only contains many classic history readings, but also adds new book comments and articles never been published before. This book discusses the wisdom of reading, thinking, and studying, as well as the wisdom in daily life and social communication.

The unique value of this book is based on the fact that it is one of the earliest books to study Chinese classical poetry from the perspective of linguistics. As highlighted by the author, classical poetry has an independent language system. Therefore, the author elaborates on the overall characteristics and dynamics of the language system from macroscopical view instead of analyzing a particular poem at the micro level.

This little but interesting book is for the beginners to have a general information of the Chinese classical poems and essays.

"Shiji" (Records of the Grand Historian) is a monumental history of ancient China and the world ended around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian. The work covers the world as it was then known to the Chinese and a 2500-year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in the author's own time. The Records has been called a ""foundational text in Chinese civilization"". Sima Qian is considered as one of the creators of Imperial China by providing definitive biographies and also considered as one of the most prominent and influential historians and litterateur in China. This book offers a peek into the great man¡¯s life and how he created the masterpiece with solid facts and vivid language.

The book is very interesting to read and also is a must-read for those who wish to learn The Analects of Confucius and Chinese culture.

The book is a wonderful tour of the most famous classic novels in China, which are Journey to the West, The Golden Lotus and A Dream of Red Mansions, therefore the author selects one theme word from the each of the three novels' names and entitles it Journey to a Golden Dream. From this book, you can not only get to know different characters of the novels from the author's unique viewpoint, but also have a look at the portrait of ancient Chinese society and its worldly wisdom from the author's keen insight into humanity and Chinese classics.

The book opens a subjective discussion regarding the fate of the intellectuals in the new century; at the same time, the author also passionately looks back at the pathway of the intellectuals in the last century. The book tends to demonstrate the ideas through theory, and further enhance its theory with the ideas.