Corruption in all its forms, the true face of bureaucracy in the late Qing Dynasty.
"The Appearance of Officialdom" is a novel written by Li Baojia, a famous writer in the late Qing Dynasty. The book has a total of sixty chapters.
As one of the "four major condemnation novels" in the late Qing Dynasty, this book not only caused a sensation in society when it was published, but also became an immortal masterpiece in satirical literature.
Li Baojia concentrated on describing all kinds of darkness, ugliness and corruption in the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty through "The Appearance of Officialdom".
The author creates a group of various bureaucrats, from the high-ranking military ministers, governors and governors, to the local admirals, county magistrates, and officials at the bottom. They have high or low official positions, large or small powers, and different methods, but they are all vampires who are "open to money and regard money as life" and prey on the common people.
All these people were either dirty and despicable, or ignorant, or corrupt, forming a shocking picture of the ugliness of the late Qing bureaucracy.
The characterizations in "The Appearance of Officialdom" can be described as deep, penetrating, and vivid. Through the shaping of these images, Li Baojia exposed various shortcomings of the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty, allowing people to see a corrupt and dark bureaucratic world.
