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This book collects Wu Jianren's works such as "History of Pain", "Romance of the Two Jin Dynasties", and "Yunnan Wild Journey". These works are based on the serialized volumes of "New Novel" and "Yueyue Novel", and retain the eyebrow comments and post-review comments in the original books. "History of Pain" mainly tells the story of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the invasion of the Central Plains by the Yuan army, the traitorous traitor Si Dao who betrayed the country in pursuit of glory, and the story of Wen Tianxiang and other loyal ministers who bravely resisted the Yuan Dynasty. "Romance of the Two Jin Dynasties" has a total of twenty-three chapters, written from the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings. It aims to discover official historical facts, uses the past as a guide to learn from the present, and contains the meaning of historical reflection. "Yunnan Wilderness" chapter novel, three chapters. During the Warring States Period, it describes the general of Chu State, Qi Qi, who conquered the southwestern barbarians and established the Dian Kingdom.

The whole book is based on the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience, starting from his father's funeral to the end of his business failure. Through this character's encounters and knowledge over the past 20 years, it extensively reveals the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), and depicts the crazy aggression of imperialism from the side. The work contains more than 200 "strange situations" and outlines a ghostly world filled with "snakes, rats", "jackals" and "ghosts". Among the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they reflected a wide range of life, including not only the officialdom, but also shopping malls and foreign markets, as well as medicine, horoscopes, and the three religions and nine streams. They revealed the political situation, social fashion, moral outlook, and world conditions at the time, so they were labeled "social novels" when they were published.

The whole book is based on the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience, starting from his father's funeral to the end of his business failure. Through this character's encounters and knowledge over the past 20 years, it extensively reveals the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), and depicts the crazy aggression of imperialism from the side. The work contains more than 200 "strange situations" and outlines a ghostly world filled with "snakes, rats", "jackals" and "ghosts". Among the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they reflected a wide range of life, including not only the officialdom, but also shopping malls and foreign markets, as well as medicine, horoscopes, and the three religions and nine streams. They revealed the political situation, social fashion, moral outlook, and world conditions at the time, so they were labeled "social novels" when they were published.

This book is a full-length novel with an autobiographical flavor. It begins with the protagonist narrowly escaping death to attend the funeral of his father, and then follows his friend Wu Jizhi to dominate officialdom and shopping malls until he fails in business. He used diary form to record nearly 200 stories he had heard and witnessed in the past twenty years. The content was extensive, covering not only officialdom, but also shopping malls, foreign markets, and academic institutions. He thoroughly and clearly analyzed the intricate relationship between Chinese traditional officials and businessmen. It is a rare masterpiece that studies world affairs and culture.