Ni Huanzhi
by Ye Shengtao
About This Novel
"Ni Huanzhi" is Ye Shengtao's only full-length novel. It tells the story of a progressive intellectual who expected to use "ideal education" to cleanse the darkness of society from the Revolution of 1911 to the failure of the Great Revolution in 1927. The harsh reality shattered Ni Huanzhi's fantasy. With the arrival of the May 4th Movement, Ni Huanzhi was involved in the revolutionary wave, and began to turn his attention to the "public masses" and devote himself to social transformation activities. During the May 30th Movement and the climax of the Great Revolution, Ni Huanzhi initially shifted from a reformist approach of "education to save the nation" to later turning to revolution. However, after the "April 12" counter-revolutionary massacre, Ni Huanzhi did not persist in the heroic struggle like Wang Leshan, but felt fragile that "it was too changed" and even died in pessimism and despair. This ending of the protagonist is a whipping for all petty bourgeois intellectuals who cannot truly integrate with the masses.
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