故人风清：文化名人的背影

by 张昌华

Countless legendary and endless bitterness has been left in the history of the latest more than a hundred years since the breaking out of 1911 revolution,the great bourgeois - democratic revolution in modern China. The book includes investigations on life story and legenday experience of 23 cultural celebrities, who are academic masters, art and literary circle leaders, military and political officials as well as the leading figures of the cultural sector. Their names are Ma Yinchu, Mao Yisheng, Ji Xianlin, Zhang Chonghe, Wang Shixiang, Zhang Boju, Yang Xianyi, Yu Guangzhong, Huang Shang, Yuan Hanyun, Jiang Tingfu, Pu Ru, Zhang Zhizhong, Sun Liren, Lu Bi-cheng, Weng Wenhao, Shi Shiyuan, Liao Bingxiong, Lv En, Liu Shaotang, Xia Zhiqing, Gu Zhengqiu and Yu Daxiong. Some of them, though already passed away, seems still with us with their faces and thoughts living in us. Those who are still living and in good health are keeping on engaging in art and literary work in mainland China, taiwan and the United States. When we outlining their lives, we find painful history to learn from, high and upright character to look up to and elegance of talents to sigh with regret.

370 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2012