
Dream of Prosperity at Sea (complete Collection)
by Sun Jiazhen
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769Kwords112chapters
Latest:Ch. 112 — Chapter 40: One Hundred Chapters Summarizes the Dream of Prosperity, a Play by People Who Have Performed It
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"Dream of Prosperity at Sea" is based on the social life of Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty in the ten-mile foreign market. It focuses on the description of brothels and gambling houses. It more truly reflects the bad habits of the feudal class and comprador forces in the semi-colonial Shanghai beach of prostitution and gambling, and exposes all kinds of despicable deeds, extortion, and entrapment among prostitutes, clients, and gamblers. This work is one of the most influential novels of the late Qing Dynasty. It describes the life of feasting and reveling in a ten-mile foreign market. It has a vivid cognitive value for understanding that era and that world.
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