About the author
Chen Yan is an author about whom limited public information is available. At present, all that is known is that three of his history books are held in the collection, including "When It Blooms It Seems Like Snow, When It Fades It Seems Like Snow: The Song Dynasty Volume," "Ten Thousand Nations' Robes and Caps Bow to the Crowned Mace: The Tang Dynasty Volume," and "The Great Beauty of China (Eight-Volume Set)." Judging from these works, he focuses on Chinese history, especially popular writing on the Tang and Song dynasties, and has taken part in a multi-volume general history series themed on "the great beauty of China." His writing is aimed at general readers and stresses presenting dynastic life and cultural atmosphere through clear narrative; several titles are drawn from classical verse, lending them a literary quality and suggesting that, beyond sorting historical sources, the author cares about readability. The available material is insufficient to reconstruct the details of his life, but it confirms his interest in popularizing history, and his works offer readers a plain path toward understanding Tang and Song society and Chinese civilization.
Written (5)
Rating 4.2★ Blooming Like Snow, Falling Like Snow: Northern and Southern Song Volume 陈炎 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 In the study of aesthetic cultural history, the "Great Beauty of China" series sorts out and constructs "an aesthetic cultural history distinct from t… Rating 4.1★ The Great Beauty of China (8-Volume Set) 陈炎 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 A groundbreaking history of aesthetic culture in China, comprising eight volumes: The Subtle Emergence of Divine Beauty: Prehistory and Xia-Shang; Tho… Rating 3.9★ Robes of Ten Thousand Nations Bow to the Crown: The Tang Dynasty Volume 陈炎 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 Through a rigorous and detailed examination of the abundant cultural legacy of the Tang Empire—including crafts, artworks, music and dance, literature… The Great Beauty of China: A History of Ancient Chinese Aesthetic Culture 陈炎 / 廖群 / 仪平策 / 王小舒 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2017 The Great Beauty of China: A History of Ancient Chinese Aesthetic Culture is a general history of Chinese aesthetic culture edited by Chen Yan and co-… Do You Yahoo!? — The Road to the Internet's First Brand 陈炎 / 高岩 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 1999 Written by Chen Yan and Gao Yan and published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House in September 1999, this book runs about 378 pages. Its title comes …Publishers
Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseJiangsu People's Publishing House