Zhè běn shū kěyǐ kànzuò shì zuòzhě de wénzì zìhuàxiàng.
This book can be read as the author's self-portrait in words.
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The most famous self-portraits in Chinese art-history textbooks are Van Gogh's (梵高) and Frida Kahlo's (弗里达·卡罗). The word is also used metaphorically — 'a written/musical self-portrait'.