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Gu Zhun is an author about whom little biographical information is available; his dates of birth and death and his nationality are not definitively recorded in public sources. The library holds three of his works, the representative ones being The Greek City-State System: Notes on Reading Greek History and From Idealism to Empiricism. In terms of subject matter, his writing spans both history and thought: the former examines the political institutions of the ancient Greek city-states in the form of reading notes, while the latter leans toward discussion of social culture and modes of thinking. Taken together, the two works show an approach that emphasizes the organization of materials and the analysis of concepts, often moving from concrete historical facts to questions about institutions and ideas, with a marked note-taking and research-oriented character. His works are classified in the library under historical reading and social culture, and are suited to readers interested in classical political institutions and modern intellectual questions.