Moving into Human Form

In the early 1940s, Ni Wucheng and his wife Jiang Jingyi, who had returned from studying abroad, were incompatible with each other and they quarreled and fought all day long. The mother-in-law and sister-in-law came from the side to make suggestions, adding fuel to the fire. The family was in a state of turmoil, and staged scenes of farce and tragedy involving marriage changes, suicide, and running away. In a pungent and humorous tone, the author depicts the contradictory and struggling state of old Chinese intellectuals who longed for modern civilization but could not find a way out, expressing their inner division, distortion and pain. This book has become the "metamorphosis" and "epitome of the spiritual journey" of modern Chinese intellectuals. It is also known as the "Masterpiece of Examining the Father" and a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese family literature. The novel describes the fate of a university teacher in China in the 20th century with an unprecedented height and novel perspective. It grasps and examines the fate of his father's generation of Chinese intellectuals from the perspective of the collision and integration of Chinese and Western cultures.