About the author

Xiao Qi is an author about whom relatively little is publicly known. Only one work appears under this name, Shiyiji (The Record of Gleanings: Complete Text with Full Annotation and Modern Translation). Because public information is limited, details such as place of origin, dates of birth and death, and personal biography cannot be verified, and the author is generally associated with the collation, annotation, and modern translation of the Shiyiji. In terms of common classification, the book belongs to literature and classical literature, and is a popular edition of a zhiguai and anecdotal classic that combines textual scholarship with efforts to make the text accessible to readers. The format of complete text, full annotation, and full translation implies careful work in textual collation, glossing, and rendering into vernacular Chinese, making the archaic and difficult records easier for contemporary readers to understand. Though unassuming, such work is indispensable to the transmission of classical literature and offers general readers a reliable introduction to early Chinese narrative traditions.

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Publishers

Zhonghua Book Company