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Chen Jiong is an author for whom public information is currently limited; his biography, nationality, and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Judging from the fourteen works held in the collection, Chen Jiong's writing focuses on Chinese classical thought and the popularization of philosophy, commonly classified under philosophical readings and Eastern philosophy. Representative works include Yu Laoshi Speaks on Mencius, Yu Laoshi Speaks on the Book of Songs and the Rites, Yu Laoshi Speaks on the Analects, Yu Laoshi Speaks on the Commentaries on the I Ching, and Yu Laoshi Speaks on The Art of War, as well as The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean in the "People and Classics" series. These works mostly center on Confucian classics and pre-Qin texts, presenting the intellectual threads of traditional texts through explanation and guided reading in plain language for general readers, combining quotation of the originals with exposition of their meaning and making the classics accessible to beginners. On the available evidence, Chen Jiong's writings show sustained attention to classical studies and the thought of the pre-Qin masters, and are representative of popular readings on traditional culture.