About the author

Ding Song is the author of Recollections of the Art World over Forty Years (1902–1945). Public information about him is limited: his dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background are not clearly documented. Judging from the surviving work, he was a writer who recorded his observations of the art world in a documentary style. The book spans the years from 1902 to 1945, reviewing figures and events in the art world from the late Qing and early Republican period through the years around the end of the War of Resistance, and belongs to the genre of documentary literature, combining historical value with a sense of immediacy. Ding Song writes from the perspective of a firsthand observer, emphasizing details of people and events in plain, restrained language that avoids excessive dramatization, allowing readers to glimpse the atmosphere and changes of the art world in that era. Only one of his works is held in the collection, suggesting that his writing centers on memoir and record-keeping, and is of reference value for the study of the modern art world.

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Publishers

Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House