Kong Guangsen, a descendant of Confucian of the 70th generation, was a noted scholar in the study of Confucian classics, a phonologist and a mathematician in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

孔广森是孔子第七十代孙，清代中叶有名的经学家、音韵学家和数学家。

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Thirty-odd years later, though, author Jonathan Lethem wrote gushingly about it, it was republished by NYRB Classics, and a younger generation that rode into urban areas on waves of gentrification could identify with its subject matter.

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"It is our responsibility to introduce classics to the next generation, because there's such a flood of new titles on the book market right now, especially in young adult literature, and we have to make sure that the books that we love go into the hands of our own children, " Blume tells Linda Wertheimer.

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