Battlefield Chrysanthemum Chronicle (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Li Hanqiu
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: Battlefield Chrysanthemum and Peach Blossom Record 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 love and marriage entanglements of a group of wealthy young men while also portraying the patriotic actions of students amidst warlord conflicts and national crises. 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 tragicomic love stories.