Roulin Wai Shi (Youth Edition)

Author: Wu Jingzi, rewritten by Yu Bing
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: The Story of the Stone (Shui Hu Chuan) is a renowned classical satirical novel in China. Through vivid artistic imagery, it reflects the corrupt and dark social reality of the late feudal society, criticizes the imperial examination system, and exposes the evils and hypocrisy of the reactionary regime. The author of this novel, Wu Jingzi, was born during the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty and was primarily active during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was already in decline, social contradictions had intensified further, and a storm of peasant revolution was brewing. People from other strata were also dissatisfied with the society. Political and economic conflicts had reached an extremely acute level.