子昂

Zi Ang (public information on his dates of birth and death, nationality, and similar details is limited) is a Chinese author with a substantial body of work; the library holds thirty-four of his titles, most presented in a "modern Chinese" series. His writing spans Eastern philosophy, classic works, history, essays and miscellany, documentary literature, and literary appreciation, and involves modern Chinese整理 and interpretation of such classics as Ri Zhi Lu, Sou Shen Ji, Lao Xue An Bi Ji, Tong Jian Ji Shi Ben Mo, Tian Yan Lun, Chun Qiu Fan Lu, Po Xie Lun, and Shen Jian. Judging from his selections, he favors traditional texts of intellectual-historical and documentary value, balancing accounts of the strange and the supernatural with political and scholarly writings, and his fluent, accessible modern Chinese renderings make the originals approachable for general readers. Overall, his work reflects a systematic effort to organize and popularize classical texts and offers some reference value for the reading of classics and the spread of historical knowledge.