It seems an indisputable fact that "scholar prose"—a literary form integrating imaginative power and wise insights—witnessed a vigorous growth towards "the end of the century".

Mr Ji Xian-lin is one with the deepest feeling and hardest working among the scholar prose writers.

Inspired by the "three_dimensional pattern" of art research described in Contemporary Western Artistic Culturology, this paper, maintaining to study scholars prose from the angle of culturology, gives a vertical and horizontal analysis of almost all the aspects of scholars prose in terns of cultural history, cultural field, cultural people and cultural level.

There have been several schools of the conception, for example, the scholarly prose conception inheriting the convention of "54"proses; the framed essay conception which pays special attention to being common, commercial, and practical; the exploring prose conception deeply .