“Ten years of grinding one sword”, Chen Qing-zhi's "The History of Chinese Education" has almost cost the time and energy of his prime. Since the publication, it has received rave reviews and was included in the "college-textbook series", using as a textbook prescribed by the Ministry of Education. Later, due to changes in the social situation, this work was silenced for forty years. After that, as the only book on the general history of Chinese education, it was selected into the "Republic of China Series". However, the academia has not been able to give corresponding status to Chen and Chen's work. It was not until the new century that it was completely changed. His work was favored, and many publishers reprinted it, which led to the rare "Chen Qing-zhi phenomenon" in educational publishing. There are both economic considerations and academic affirmations behind this phenomenon. History shows its own dialectics here. Living today, through the phenomenon, analyzing the person and his books is instructive for later studies.