Classic Literature: Twenty Years of Prosperity Dream
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"Dream of Prosperity in Twenty Years", also known as "Dream of Prosperity in Eastern Guangdong", is a famous condemnation novel in the late Qing Dynasty. The work is based on the 20 years that Guangdong Customs Secretary Zhou Yongyou spent from his rise to prosperity to his defeat. It is a work that depicts real people and real events. This book is worth reading for readers interested in such topics. The work revolves around the narration of the protagonist's twenty-year prosperity finally becoming a dream, and unfolds the description of the vast social life in the late Qing Dynasty, from the imperial court to the people, thereby sharply criticizing the reality, and exposing to the readers the corruption and corruption of the entire officialdom, which was dominated by corruption and perversion of law, selling out officials, looking for flowers, and bringing prostitutes and concubines as the entire life content, allowing readers to see the incorrigibility of the Qing Dynasty. In terms of artistic description, the novel is not like other denunciation novels that pick up official quotes and link them together. Instead, it captures the whole process of Zhou Yongyou's prosperity and decline in his 20 years, and narrates how he made his fortune, how he was extravagant, how he sought high officials, how he was expropriated and exiled in a foreign country. This makes the work a biographical novel, adding a villain image to the numerous character galleries in late Qing novels.
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