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Zeng Pan is an author about whom little public information is available. Only four of his works are currently on record, and his writing and editorial work center on literary appreciation, culture, classic works, and folk literature. His representative works include Dialogue with the World: A Biography of Yue Daiyun, a biographical account that traces the scholar's life and academic exchanges, as well as the seven-volume Classics of Guangxi Multiethnic Literature and the two-volume and three-volume selections of short stories and novellas from that collection (1958–2018). Drawing on the historical development of multiethnic literature in Guangxi, these anthologies present the region's short fiction and novellas. Judging from the available titles, Zeng Pan combines scholarly biography with the organization of regional literature, focusing on modern Chinese academic figures and the classicization of multiethnic writing, with an emphasis on documentary research and close reading.