袁田

Yuan Tian is an author about whom little public information is available, and whose writing and editorial work span several fields. Seven of the author's works are held in the collection, covering a wide range of subjects: they include Out of Africa and its edition as the original novel of the 58th Academy Award Best Picture, as well as a foreign literary work, The Pilgrimage of One Person II: Queenie's Love Song. There are also historical and biographical readings such as Yuan Kuocheng Tells the Three Kingdoms, Xiang Yu the Hegemon of Western Chu, The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and The Seven Warlords of the Warring States. Yuan Tian's writing or editorial work thus combines the translation and introduction of foreign literature with accessible presentations of Chinese historical themes, with the common categories centering on general biography, historical reading, and foreign literature. Because biographical details are lacking, the author's specific identity and experience cannot be reliably determined; readers may come to know this author mainly through the diversity and cross-disciplinary character of the works' subjects.