Jiang Lan 
Tao Wu”s Book 

This book contains a series of "non-fictional characters" essays completed by Jiang Lan in recent years; there are about 11 characters and span of characters is modern times. The author adopts "field investigation" as research method and realizes the author”s mentality of returning to "integration of literary, history and philosophy". In hard review and collection process, the author instills intrinsic beauty of literary form and ideological implication of literature; broad historical perspective and profound literary heritage of works are also manifested. While based on coordinates of historical space and time, the works pay more attention to physical geography and human geography involving whereabouts of the characters. A gripping historical narration is completed through interconnected relationship between characters.