Midnight, Lin Jiazi - New Curriculum Standard Required Reading Series

Author: Mao Dun
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Ziye depicts the social phenomena of the early 1930s, with the protagonist Wu Songfu, a national capitalist, as its central figure, painting a broad social panorama. It not only portrays the ruthless struggle in the stock market, the tough struggles of small and medium-sized national industries, the vile actions of various landlords, and the decadent lives of the bourgeoisie, but also includes scenes of workers' strikes and peasant uprisings. Ziye presents to us a tragedy of the fate of national industrial capital in a capitalist society.