The Strange Current Situation I've Witnessed for Twenty Years (hardcover Collection)
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About This Novel
"The Strange Current Situation I've Witnessed for Twenty Years" is one of Wan Qing's four major condemnation novels and is the masterpiece of Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jianren. It has been serialized in "New Novels" edited by Liang Qichao since 1903, and was completed in 1909, with a total of 108 chapters. The novel takes "narrow escape" as the protagonist, starting from his funeral for his father and ending with his failure in business. It integrates what he has seen and heard in the past 20 years. It is an autobiographical novel. This novel covers a wide range of society, ranging from governors and corrupt officials to litigious evil gentry, profiteers and moneymen, foreign slaves and compradors, charlatans, foreign court talents, etc. It reflects the numerous strange current situations of Chinese officialdom, shopping malls, and foreign markets after the Sino-French War. It reveals the dark reality of semi-feudal and semi-colonial society in the late Qing Dynasty, and shows a picture of society on the eve of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.
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