Ten Night Stories: Shang Xia (humanities Classic Library)
by Ma Shitu
About This Novel
The content of "Ten Chapters of a Night Story" is about a yamen in Sichuan in the 1940s. Ten frustrated and extremely bored junior clerks took turns telling the various adventures they experienced in a "dragon gate formation"... The chapter "The Thief of Officials" in the book was adapted by director Jiang Wen into the film "Let the Bullets Fly" and has since become widely known. This book takes ten poor clerks from the old Chinese yamen as the protagonists. Through the unique narrative method of ten people taking turns telling anecdotes, this book truly reproduces the various social situations in the 1930s. The images are vivid and flexible, the plot is ups and downs, the language is popular and humorous, and the narrative is vivid and vivid. Here you can see at a glance the life of the counties and towns under Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
