On the basis of browsing plenty of diaries, letters, newspapers and memoirs from home and abroad through the historical data parallelism and investing the ancient incidents and probing profound truth, the author of this book explores the literature and re-interpret celebrities and talents in various areas of politics, economy, literature and art in the republican period. Stepping behind Taiwan after one hundred years, the author makes a fresh look at the celebrities in life and in death like Zhang Ailing, Su Qing, Hu Shi, Lin Yutang, Xu Shoushang, Zhang Daqian, Du Yuesheng and shows their little known aspects after they went to Taiwan or when they were in the mainland.