Shen Congwen's painstaking work in the second half of his life! Hardcover and full-color printing, including famous guides. How to distinguish between jade bi, jade ring and jade yuan? What are enamel and five colors? What is the difference between glass and glass? Open this book to understand the doorway behind jade, ceramics, lacquerware and other cultural relics!
Shen Congwen (沈从文, December 28, 1902 – May 10, 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern Chinese writers. He was known for combining the vernacular style with classical Chinese writing techniques. Shen is the most important of the "native soil" writers in modern Chinese literature...