Youjian Bunko: the Problem of Face
by Lao She
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The main character in the play "The Problem of Face", Secretary Tong Jingming, is worried about "not losing his identity because of the war of resistance" and "not being annoyed to death because of an official matter." He is not doing his job properly and is careless about his work. When he finally lost face and was dismissed from his post after having had "face problems" all his life, what he considered was to ask the doctor for a "respectable" suicide method to save his "face." The "face problems" of other characters in the play are different. Lao She's satire on these characters was not only another criticism of the bad nature of the people, but also a lash against the corrupt style of the Kuomintang bureaucracy during the War of Resistance.
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