本书作者在翻阅海内外大量日记、书信、报刊、回忆录的基础上，通过排比史料、稽古钩沉，对民国时期政治、经济、文学、艺术等各领域的名人翘楚，或发掘文献，或重新解读。作者站在百年之后的台湾，对张爱玲、苏青、胡适、林语堂、许寿裳、张大千、杜月笙等名人的生前身后重新审视，展现了他们在赴台之后或在大陆时期也少为人知的一面。(On the basis of a large quantity of domestic and foreign diaries, letters, newspapers, memoirs, and through deep historical parallelism and studies, this book explores or reinterprets the literature on the celebrities of the ROC era in the areas of politics, economy, literature, art, and so on. After a century in Taiwan, the author reassesses the lifetime stories and posthumous influences of celebrities like Eileen Chang, Su Qing, Hu Shi, Lin Yutang, Xu Shoushang, Zhang Daqian, and Du Yuesheng, and introduces their rarely known sides after they settled in Taiwan or when they lived in the Chinese mainland.)