Traveler's Trail------Selected Essays and Sketches by Xian Qian

Author: Qian Xun
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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 Xun written from the 1920s to the 1990s, spanning a period of seventy years. Ba Jin said, "Among my friends, those with talent are Shen Congwen, Cao Yu, and Qian Xun." Qian Zhongshu said, "Qian Xun is good at English and has talent." Lin Huiyin 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 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 light, color, taste, rhythm, and philosophy in familiar scenes, presenting a poetic freshness." This characteristic can be seen in the works included in this collection, such as "Yandang Journey," "Scenery of the Grassland," "Early Winter Passing the Three Gorges," and "Chasing Sheep for Ten Thousand Li."