Chessboard Gardenism

Author: Li Hong
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: What is the Chessboard Gardenism? Where is the Chessboard Gardenism? Luxury cars, karaoke, fashion shows, skyscrapers, highways, environmental pollution—travel back seven hundred years in time. If the ancients had everything we have today, how would they think and act? Full of surprises and imaginative ideas, this novel is irresistible and laugh-out-loud funny. The story is set in the Yuan Dynasty seven hundred years ago in Quanzhou, an open coastal city. In the rear garden of the governor Pu Shouguang, a series of ingenious gadgets are invented, leading the fashion trends of the entire city. Pu Shouguang then uses his unique Chessboard Gardenism to govern the family, the state, and the world, bringing great benefits to the people while also stirring up their unified resentment. They form an anti-bad-guy alliance, determined to take revenge on Pu Shouguang’s trusted aide, Dongguan Yadan. Thus, a series of absurd yet hilarious farces unfold.