The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years (the Most Classic Chinese Classical Novel)
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"The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" by Wu Jianren of the Qing Dynasty is one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. Through the protagonist's experiences and experiences in the 20 years from his "narrow escape" from attending the funeral of his father to his failure in business, it reveals countless strange current situations in China's officialdom, shopping malls, and foreign affairs from the Sino-French War to the early 20th century. Wu Jianren satirized the "strange current situation" in the intellectual world, especially the literati and famous celebrities in the foreign market, which was extremely successful. He rationally realizes that "business is the foundation of financial management", but still cannot forgive the intrigues in shopping malls; he describes many scandals of fratricide and tragic changes in human relations within the family, revealing the destruction of ethics and morality; in particular, he successfully creates a negative example throughout the book - Gou Cai (Gou Cai). By describing his extremely shameless history of fortune, he portrays the dirty soul of a corrupt official. In short, in one hundred and eight chapters, Wu Jian showed readers a historical picture of the imminent collapse of the feudal society at the end of the world.
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