Lao Can's Travels (the Most Classic Chinese Classical Novel)
by Liu E
About This Novel
"The Travels of Lao Can" is one of the four "condemnation novels" in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a "crying" work by the author Liu E who laments the fate of the country and hopes to awaken the people and save the world. The novel takes the travels of Fang Langzhong and Lao Can as the main line, and conducts in-depth exploration of social contradictions. In particular, it directly denounces upright officials who harm the country and harms the people. It points out that sometimes the stupidity of upright officials is no better than corrupt officials. The criticism of the officialdom of the Qing court is pertinent to the current ills and has a unique insight. In terms of narrative, the novel has achieved a transformation from storyteller narrative to writer narrative, embodying superb descriptive skills and bringing late Qing novels to a new realm.
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