The Fire Thief Anthology — Traveler's Track

Author: Qian Xue
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This collection includes thirty essays, literary critiques, special reports, travelogues, reviews, and miscellaneous writings by Qian Xue written from the 1920s to the 1990s, spanning over seventy years. Ba Jin said, "Among my friends, those with talent are Shen Congwen, Cao Yu, and Qian Xue." Qian Zhongshu said, "Qian Xue is good at English and has talent." Lin Huiyin said to Qian Xue 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 Xue is a talented and skillful essayist in temperament. His aesthetic self seems to possess a very sensitive and diverse perceptual function, able to capture the often overlooked colors, flavors, rhythms, and philosophies in familiar scenes, presenting an poetic freshness." 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 for Ten Thousand Li."