Flowers in the Dusty Sea: The Essence of Five Great Classical Novels of China

Author: (Qing) Zeng Pu
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
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When the poem of the land is sung, the spirits weep; the free souls of the Central Plains are broken! A talented person in the golden hall, beautiful ladies in Pingkang, fall in love with each other in the Wu Garden. West of the pavilion, the spiritual roots are suddenly concealed, and the secret grievances are communicated. Drifting in the sea of suffering, the grievances of past lives are judged in this life. The dragons fight in the ninth heaven, and when the sky is drunk, the dreams are startled. The tiger god's camp is desolate, and the phoenix hall is opened, and your diplomatic slender wrist is defeated. The great universe's case, again the sky's eye is sad, the human heart thinks of Han. The flower god of freedom is handed over to the east wind... This book takes the love story of Jin Wenqing and Fu Caicun as the clue, and through the thoughts and lives of officials, scholars, and feudal literati in and outside the capital at that time, it depicts the politics, economy, diplomacy, and society of the late Qing Dynasty in the thirty years before the Wuxu Reform. It exposes and criticizes the corruption of feudal rule and the aggressive ambitions of imperialism.