() Twenty Years Witnessing Strange Currents (Complete Three Volumes)

Author: Qing Wu Eryuan
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: ▼Complete Content ▼Sandalwood Aroma ▼Compact and Lightweight ▼Original Illustrations ▼Portable
In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, Chinese society faced a period of transformation, with turbulent and fluctuating times. The Novel Revolution, initiated by the reformist luminary Liang Qichao, gained momentum, making fiction one of the most outstanding fields in the late Qing intellectual enlightenment and literary reform movement.
As a powerful tool to critique societal ills and enlighten the masses, the new novels, with their sharp intervention in reality and dynamic edge, shook the literary world. They gave rise to the four major classics, known as the "Scolding Novels" and dubbed by Lu Xun as such: The Real Story of the Court, Strange Currents in a Decade, The Story of Lao Can, and The Sea of Perilous Beauty, marking the beginning of a strong literary trend that criticized reality in modern times.
Wu Woyao's Strange Currents in a Decade is a work with autobiographical elements...