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Chapters: Ye Shengtao, Wang Ganchang, Wang Tao, Pan Yin Tze, Carina Lau, Huston Smith, David Chiang, Cai Yun, Fan Zhongyan, Zheng Xiaoxu, Tang Fei, Thomas Dao, Yen Chia-Kan, Zhang Jun, M. T. Cheng, Luo Zhenyu, Cheng Kaijia, Yao Zhen, Li Ruofan, Zhou Chunxiu, Fei Junlong, Guan Pinghu, Shen Junru, Jin Renqing, Xu Jun, Jiang Lan, Yuan Weimin, Tang Zhengdong, Su Yiping, Weng Tonghe, Zhu Shilin, Lu Bin, Zhang Rongkun, Chen Jue, Wang Juan, Chen Qian, Li Shida. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ye Shengtao (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Yè Shèngtáo) (28 October 1894 16 February 1988) was a prominent author, educator and publisher. He was one of the founders of the Association for Literary Studies (), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. Throughout his life, he was dedicated to publishing and language education. His strongest advocation was 'Literature is for Life' (). Ye was born on 28 October 1894 in Wu county (), Suzhou (), Jiangsu Province, China. His father worked as a bookkeeper for a landlord and they lived a very modest life. When he was six years old, he entered a mediocre school for primary study. He often followed his father to work. He travelled around the city and experienced the lives of the poor. In 1907, Ye entered Caoqiao Secondary School (). After his graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher, before being dismissed by the school in 1914. Finding himself unemployed, he devoted himself entirely to writing classical Chinese novels, which were published in Libailiu Magazine ( Saturday Magazine), until he found work as the Chinese teacher of a school set up by the Shanghai Commercial Press (). At the same time, he became the editor of primary textbooks of the Shanghai Com...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1029527 ... Read more