"The Ancient Capital" Author: [Japanese] Kawabata Yasunari Publisher: Guwuxuan Publishing House

"The Old Capital" is one of Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning works.

In Kyoto, an elderly couple runs a long-established cloth shop, and the innocent and kind-hearted Chieko is the apple of their eye.

During one of her outings, Chieko discovered a farm girl named Miaozi who looked exactly like her.

It turned out that they were actually a pair of twin sisters, but one lived a life of luxury while the other lived in poverty and hardship.

The disparity in their identities gradually caused the two to fall into a long period of depression...

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)

A giant of Japanese literature, a writer of the New Sensationalism school, and a famous novelist.

He became famous in 1927 for his autobiographical novel "The Dancing Girl of Izu". In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Snow Country", "Thousand Cranes" and "The Old Capital", becoming the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

His parents died when he was young, and then his grandmother, sister, and grandfather died of illness one after another. He gradually developed a sentimental and lonely personality, and this inner sentimentality and melancholy also became the background of his literature. He was prolific throughout his life and wrote more than 100 novels.

Gao Huiqin (1934-2008)

Translator, graduated from the Japanese major of the Department of Oriental Languages, Peking University.

Over the past decades, she has presided over and participated in the translation of "The Complete Works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke" and "The Ten-Volume Works of Kawabata Yasunari", and has made outstanding achievements in the fields of Japanese literature research and translation. Her translations are beautiful and profound, and she enjoys a high reputation in the translation circles at home and abroad.

She has served as president of the Chinese Society of Japanese Literature, researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Oriental Literature Office, and director of the Foreign Literature Department of the Graduate School.