The Moon Shines on the Moss: a Brief History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century

About This Novel

"Once Upon a Time in China" is a series of works by Zhao Botian that retells the modern history of China from the perspective of the transformation of modernity. It consists of three volumes and four volumes, namely: "The Moon Shines on the Moss: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century", "The Moon Shines on the Moss: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century", and "Guns and Money: The Rise and Fall of Financiers in the Republic of China". The author has been working hard for ten years to write the memory of a country in public oblivion. The "China Past" series is his positive writing of modern revolution and cultural themes. It tells the stories of the best souls in that changing era: revolutionaries, politicians, intellectuals, scholars, businessmen, Jianghu, grassroots and working class. "The Moon Shines on the Moss: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century" is a discovery-style account of the southern literati after the May Fourth Movement from the perspective of daily life. With the patience of a historical archaeologist, the author reconstructs and outlines the life, death, love and desire of Jiang Menglin, Shao Xunmei, Chen Brai, Shen Congwen, Su Qing, Mu Shiying, Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Ying Xiuren, Zhang Shouyong, Wu Jingxiong, Xu Xu and others, picking up the "bits and pieces of broken shadows" that the moonlight fell on the moss through the dense leaves. This book is the author's initial work that has focused on the transformation of China's modernity for more than ten years. By rewriting this life for these southern literati, it presents a hard, generous, more material and modern South.

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