The Frost Report: Zhang Jingsheng's Selected Essays

The author was one of three famous Doctors in the Republic of China era as well as one of the two youngest professors(the other one is Hu Shi) in the Department of Philosophy of Peking University.He's the first one in China to translate "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" into Chinese,the first one to propose family planning,the first one to hold a great discussion on love before putting forward four principles of love as "love is conditional,reliable and transferrable and that the relationship between husband and wife is like the relationship among friends",which shocked the whole city of Beijing.His harsh life also started with this astonishing statement.This book is a collection of the author's three autobiographical essays which retells his personal stories of love,sex and life,, namely "About Life","Romance of Ten Years" and "Whirlpool of Love".In these books,he expressed his attitudes towards life as "leading a good life, exchanging emotions and enjoying happily".This is the most heterogeneous life archive of a scholar as well as the most resourceful spiritual history of an excellent writer.