The Great River Author: Qi Bangyuan Publisher: Sanlian Bookstore

The author Qi Bangyuan's father, Qi Shiying, was a passionate young man who studied in Germany in the early years of the Republic of China. He was a reformist in Northeast China before the September 18th Incident. His lifelong regret was the failed battle on the Great River. The uncrossable river was like the severe cold in reality. Diplomacy and innovative ideas were all frozen here. From then on, the modern suffering of Northeast China and eventually the whole of China began. The author's life is a microcosm of the entire 20th century.

The author spent four years writing The Great River at the age of over 80, and wrote it with meticulous and penetrating writing, starting from the "Great River" outside the Great Wall and ending at the "Dumb Mouth Sea" in Hengchun, the southern tip of Taiwan, and recording the changes of the great era spanning a century and across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Qi Bangyuan was born in 1924 in Tieling, Liaoning. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of National Wuhan University and came to Taiwan in 1947. In 1968, he studied at Indiana University in the United States. In 1969, he became the head of the newly established Department of Foreign Languages ​​of National Chung Hsing University. In 1988, he retired from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of National Taiwan University and was appointed as an honorary professor of National Taiwan University. He was a visiting professor at St. Mary's College and California State University, San Francisco, and a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin. He taught and wrote with rigorous arguments; he compiled, translated, and published a variety of literary reviews. He was instrumental in introducing Western literature to Taiwan and translated Taiwan's representative literary works into English and introduced them to the Western world.