Republican China: The Outlaw Literary Tyrant

I have a question, please don't scold me. Judging from the author's writing, as long as you don't gamble or do drugs and work hard, even the lowest-level people like those pulling rickshaws in the Republic of China era can eat their fill and have money to buy meat for their sisters. Is this really a realistic portrayal?

It's not a system, not a fantasy world, it's Republican-era literature, and it can't cross any lines—doesn't that make it just like traditional literature? It even has the added constraint of online boundaries. How well do you have to write to get ahead...? You're really stubborn, I admire you.

Personally, I feel that the protagonist of this book has too low a starting point. A rickshaw puller who has never read a book suddenly knows English and can write. This kind of plot doesn't stand up to scrutiny and feels like it's filtering out readers. Logic-oriented readers will usually leave after reading the beginning.

Chapter 198 was so bad it made me want to give up on the book; it was disgusting. The earlier parts involving Hu Shi were also disgusting, since everyone knows what kind of person Hu Shi was.

There's actually a lot to write about in Republican-era literature. Just the amusing anecdotes of verbal battles between some of the great writers of that time, and the small stories of mutual disdain and respect among intellectuals, could fill a lot of pages. Personally, I think the difficulty in writing about Republican-era literature isn't so much related to military and political affairs.

This is just a book of capitalist garbage. Claiming to be a literary giant during wartime is worthless, especially praising the corrupt intellectual Hu Shi—it's utterly disgusting.

The book is actually quite good; it only has a little over a hundred monthly votes so far, but its quality is worth more than ten times that. However, there's a reason it's not popular. Some parts are really toxic, and the author seems determined to continue doing so. The first wave of toxicity is when the erhu-playing girl, Ms. Yang, abandons her grandfather without a word.

Literary giants my foot! Ever since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I've come to think that so-called literary giants are nothing special.

Seriously, dude, Lu Xiaoman can be the female lead? How desperate must the protagonist be? Lu Xiaoman was not only extravagant and promiscuous, but she also apparently encouraged them to smoke opium. I think the protagonist is really insane.

A rickshaw puller writing an encyclopedia? Does he think his readers are idiots?