Literary Man of the Republic of China

1912. This was a turbulent era when the Qing emperor abdicated and the Republic of China was founded. Beiyang forces, political parties were divided, warlords were separatist, and the people were ignorant and numb. Lin Yan, a modern university lecturer, traveled through time and used his pen as a sword and literature as a shield. He founded newspapers, bookstores, and free schools to deeply cultivate the cause of enlightenment. He adhered to the independent bottom line of a literary man, did not take sides or participate in politics, used his pen and ink to break the feudal shackles, spread the common sense of modern citizens, and silently guarded progressive thoughts and young people. In troubled times, how did he use his pen to survive the Republic of China and become the first enlightened literati in the Republic of China? "Literary Man of the Republic of China" takes you into the perseverance and resistance of a literary man and witnesses the awakening and change of an era.