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Su Ying is a contemporary Chinese author who has long devoted herself to the study of classical Chinese literature and to the annotation and commentary of poetry and ci. Her prose is gentle and fluent. Her writing centers on the appreciation and interpretation of classical poetry, and also extends to literary criticism and biography, with her works commonly classed under literary appreciation, classical poetry, literature, and biography. Sixteen of her works are held in the collection, including the representative titles Nalan Ci Dictionary Commentary, A Complete Annotated Edition of Nalan's Ci, Close Reading of Renjian Cihua, The Most Beautiful Tang Poems, and the biographies Li Shangyin: A Life in Poems and The Book of Poetic Time: When You Are Old. She has also co-authored Nalan Rongruo: A Life in Ci and Li Shangyin: A Life in Poems with Mao Xiaowen and Xia Ruyi. Her commentaries attend closely to wording and textual editions while remaining accessible and engaging, and have been well received by readers as an introduction to classical poetry. Because no systematic account of her life has been made public, information about her education and career cannot be confirmed.