Battlefield Chrysanthemum Chronicle (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Li Hanqiu, written by, Xiang Dong, edited by Rui Lin
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Publishing Date: 1999-01-01
Features: Battlefield Chrysanthemum Chronicle is a long social novel and a representative work of the famous late Qing and Republican period novelist Li Hanqiu. Set against the social realities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the work depicts the romantic and marital entanglements of a group of wealthy young men while also portraying the patriotic actions of students amid the chaos of warlord conflicts and national crisis. The protagonist, Lin Saiyu, disguises herself as a man from a young age and later attends a girls' school, where she navigates among many intelligent and beautiful female classmates, staging a series of tragicomedy of love.