Midnight
by Mao Dun
About This Novel
A modern Chinese novel with more than 300,000 words. Mao Dun started writing in October 1931 and completed it on December 5, 1932, with a total of nineteen chapters. Some chapters have been published in "Novel Monthly" and "Literary Monthly" respectively. For more than half a century, "Midnight" has not only enjoyed a wide range of readers in China, but has also been translated into more than a dozen languages including English, German, Russian, and Japanese, producing extensive international influence. The novel is set in the semi-feudal and semi-colonial old Shanghai in May and June of 1930, with the national capitalist Wu Sunfu as the center, and describes various contradictions and struggles in Chinese society at that time.
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