As an eminent scientist, thinker, and writer in middle period of Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng has the remarkable status in the Han Dynasty and even in the whole history of China. This dissertation is a more comprehensive research on Zhang Heng's writings from all perspectives in an attempt to show that Zhang Heng's writings have rich cultural infiltration and function as transitional medium in the long history of Chinese ancient literature. The dissertation consists of six chapters including the I...