The Siege: up and Down (humanities Classics Library)
About This Novel
"The Besieged City" is Qian Zhongshu's only full-length novel, and it can be called a classic of modern and contemporary Chinese novels. The novel creates a group portrait of a class of intellectuals at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and vividly reflects the behavior, ethics, and confusion of special groups of people in a specific period of the country. It describes the scene and atmosphere at that time from another perspective. Despite its specific historical setting, the novel reveals only the foibles of the population and still resonates today. The first edition was published by Shanghai Chenguang Publishing Company in 1947. "Fortress Besieged" is a satirical novel with a unique style in the history of modern Chinese literature. It is known as "New Confucian Foreign History". "Fortress Besieged" is a vivid picture of the various states of the world, in which the ups and downs of life are vividly reflected. Mr. Qian Zhongshu combined his language genius with extremely profound knowledge, and added some satirical humor to make a difference with one book.
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