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Public information about Chi Yunfei is limited. His research and writing focus mainly on modern Chinese figures and history. Four of his works are included in the collection: the two-volume Zeng Guofan: A Biography along with its upper and lower volumes, and Difficult Transformation: Figures and Modern China. Judging from his subjects, he is skilled at using biography as an entry point to examine how late Qing figures made choices and faced circumstances amid changing times, while also employing a narrative style akin to documentary literature. Difficult Transformation places individuals within the broader context of modern China's social transformation, attending to individual destinies and group trends in the historical process. His writing is grounded in historical sources, plain in narration, and attentive to the relationship between figures and their era, making it suitable for readers interested in modern history and biography.