Highlight: the integration of writers and historians is a more ancient writing tradition in China, but this kind of writing lacks excellent texts at present. This book deserves attention. It not only writes the history of Nanjing from the eastern Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Republic of China, but also can be regarded as a Chinese history based on Nanjing. The interaction or tension between places and countries is full of contradictions and charm in the writing of urban history. In this regard, ye Zhaoyan, a native of Nanjing, made a new attempt to write the history of Nanjing.