understand people and their times ❍ 颂其诗，读其书，不知其人可乎？是以论其世也。(《孟子·万章下》) He repeats their poems,and reads their books,and as he does not know what they were as men. to ascertain this,he considers their history. ❍ 倘要～，是非看编年的文集不可的，……（鲁迅）So to understand writers and their times we must read their works in chronological order，…