Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He received secondary education in Suzhou Taowu Middle School and Wuxi Furen Middle School. 1933 After graduating from the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University, he taught at Guanghua University. 1935, she married Ms. Jiang Yang and went to study in England. 1938 was hired as a professor by Tsinghua University. The following year, he was transferred to the National Lantian Teachers College as the head of the English Department and began to write "Talking about Art Record". 194 1 year, after the Pearl Harbor incident broke out, she was trapped in Shanghai and taught at Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences, during which she completed the writing of Talking about Art and The Edge of Life.

After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as a professor of foreign languages department of Jinan University and editor of Lin Shu Quarterly, an English book publication of the Central Library. 1949, returned to Tsinghua to teach; 1953, when the state adjusted the departments of colleges and universities, it was transferred to Peking University Institute of Literature (now Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences), 1957, and was hired as a first-class researcher of the Institute of Literature. During the "Cultural Revolution", she and Jiang Yang were sent to Henan "May 7th Cadre School". He returned to Beijing in 1972, and the compilation of pipe taper was finalized in August of that year.

1979 published "Pipeline Taper Compilation" and "Four Old Articles". 1982, vice president of China academy of social sciences; 1984 Lu (supplementary edition) published; The following year, The Collection of Seven Compositions was published. 1998 12 19, died in Beijing at the age of 88.