Lin Jia Pu Zi

Author: Mao Dun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Many of Mao Dun's novels capture the main contradictions of real life, creating artistic archetypes of the rural and commercial worlds through progressively deepening conflicts. Among them, the author's work Lin's Shop is set against the backdrop of rural Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Shanghai War of 1932 ("January 28th Incident"). By depicting the decline of Lin's Shop, it reflects the fate of national commercial bankruptcy and reveals the complex class contradictions in Chinese society in the early 1930s. Profound in thought, it combines both realistic scenes and historical trends, making it one of the rare works of its time.