胡坚

Hu Jian is an author about whom limited public information is available; his writing and research span history, politics, and language. The library holds three of his works: the three-volume “History Hidden in Geography” and “Geography and World Hegemony,” both related to historical geography, as well as the linguistics monograph “A Cognitive Construction Grammar Study of Modality Metaphor.” These works suggest an interest in the connections between geographical conditions, historical processes, and global power structures, and a tendency to approach history from a spatial and geographical perspective. He also shows a specialized academic interest in linguistics, particularly modality metaphor and cognitive constructions. Since reliable records of his birth and death dates, nationality, education, and career are unavailable, this introduction is based solely on the subjects and categories of his works, offering readers an overview of his cross-disciplinary writing.