"Fire starters series—traveler's traces"

Author: Qian Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This collection includes thirty essays, literary critiques, special features, travelogues, reviews, and miscellaneous writings written by Qian Xun from the 1920s to the 1990s, spanning over seventy years. Ba Jin said, "Among my friends, Shen Congwen, Cao Yu, and Qian Xun are the most talented." Qian Zhongshu remarked, "Qian Xun is good at English and very talented." Lin Huiyin once said to Qian Xun directly, "You write with emotion, which is rare." Yang Yi, the director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote: "Qian Xun is a prose writer of extraordinary talent and a master of the pen. His aesthetic sense seems to possess a highly sensitive and diverse perceptual function, enabling him to capture the often overlooked colors, flavors, rhythms, and philosophies in familiar scenes, presenting a poetic freshness that is striking." This characteristic is evident in the works included in this collection, such as "Yandang Journey," "Scenery of the Grassland," "Passing the Three Gorges in Early Winter," and "Chasing Sheep Across Ten Thousand Li."