Qian Zhong Shu pioneered the masterful craft of comparative literature and culture at a time before it became the popular discourse it is today. A worldly thinker, he was also deeply rooted to China, enduring the most precarious events that defined the nation in the 20th century. Douglas Shang introduces us to this genius.

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