Tian Jiacun is an author about whom publicly available information is limited: details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. Within the library's holdings, only one work appears under Tian Jiacun's name, the documentary literary work Long Fei He Wu ( Dragons Flying and Lotuses Dancing), which is also regarded as the author's representative work. Because material on the author is scarce, a full picture of Tian's writing and personal experience is difficult to sketch, yet it can be confirmed that the author's writing practice is connected with the genre of documentary literature. Documentary literature usually draws on real events, people, or social phenomena and emphasizes the writer's powers of observation, interviewing, and narration. Tian Jiacun's effort in this direction offers readers an entry point for understanding the social content the author attends to. On the basis of the available information, Long Fei He Wu is the main basis for understanding Tian Jiacun's writing profile, and its thematic orientation and narrative style merit further attention, while other aspects of the author await supplementation by more public materials.
