Chinese classic novel series of sixteen volumes on worldly affairs

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Publisher: Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House
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Features: World-life novels focus on depicting social customs and human relationships. Many such novels are filled with explicit sexual descriptions, often making them ineligible for publication or leading to bans, hence their survival today. World-life novels are frequently found in rare, handwritten, or secret editions, or as unique copies. For example, Jin Ping Mei is a remarkable example of a world-life novel. While many world-life novels contain graphic sexual content, the authors' intentions were not merely to promote pornography but rather to use such descriptions as an artistic technique to satirize social realities. Of course, it cannot be denied that some world-life novels primarily focus on the sexual escapades of lecherous men and licentious women to cater to perverts and vulgar tastes, which are considered the inferiority of world-life novels. The more than thirty world-life novels collected in this book are extraordinary works of exceptional artistic value, regarded as the superior category of world-life novels. To preserve the original essence of the works, some potentially offensive content may be present, and readers are encouraged to appreciate them critically.