A Pen-and-ink Lawsuit That Lasted for Seventy Years
by Xu Fengyi
About This Novel
This is the spring of 1934. Shanghai Zhonghua Book Company published a book called "Gossip about Yangzhou". Before the ink was dry on the new book, it caused an uproar that lasted for half a year. It involved many high-level officials, Green Gang tycoons, and ordinary people from seven counties in Yangzhou. The scale of the case and the complexity of the case were unprecedented in China's thousands of years of cultural history. What's even more surprising is that this pen-and-ink lawsuit has been going on for more than seventy years, and the smoke and aftermath are still lingering. "Gossip about Yangzhou" is a thin 50,000-word pamphlet written by Yi Junzuo, director of the editorial office of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, who was known as Longyang Talent during the Republic of China.
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