aThe Water of the Hometown

The creation of prose part covers the memories of childhood life in Shanghai, full of ups and downs of work and learning, sincere friendship with colleagues in the translation industry, such as Qian Zhongshu and his wife, Xiao Qian and others, as well as the memories of life in the old days, such as searching for books, playing with antiques, going abroad adventures. The selected articles are of brilliant style, plain and lively language, interesting and historical materials. As the author hoped, &quote;take some efforts to change all the trivial matters of several years ago into the type that can be preserved for a long time&quote;, to some extent, truly reflects the life side of an era.