Infernal Sea Blossom

Author: Qing Zengpu
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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. Liang Qichao launched the Revolution of the Novel World, which gained momentum, and the novel became one of the most outstanding fields in the late Qing intellectual enlightenment and literary reform movement.
As a powerful tool to criticize the flaws of the time and enlighten the public, the new novel, with its sharp edge of intervening in reality and vigorous spirit, shook the literary world. It gave rise to the four major classics, which were later called "condemnation novels" by Lu Xun: The Real Story of the Official World, Strange Currents in a Decade, The Story of Lao Can, and The Flowers in the Dusty Sea. This formed a strong literary trend of critical realism in modern times.
Among the thousands of late Qing novels, The Flowers in the Dusty Sea stands out in terms of achievement. Lu Xun praised it in A Brief History of Chinese Fiction as "exquisitely structured and brilliantly written." Indeed, it is a magnificent and ornate work...