In the three and a half years from 1979 to 1982, during my postgraduate studies at the Nanjing Arts Institute, I compiled a six-volume, nearly one million words European Art History textbook. At that time, there was a remarkable shortage of such systematic teaching materials in art schools. This mimeographed textbook not only served as a resource for my subsequent teaching but also laid the foundation for my systematic research in the history of European art. Today, it stands as a historical imprint.
