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The Scholars by Wu Jingzi (Wu Ching-tzu)
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Overview: A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu’s The Scholars ranks with Outlaws of the Marsh, A Dream of Red Mansions, and Journey to the West as one of the greatest classic novels of China. This sarcastic work lashes out at the sycophancy and career-seeking of scholars under the feudal examination system and the general corruption of the feudal society. The author delineates a whole spectrum of characters—scholars, self-styled talents, wealthy merchants, venal officials, infatuated girls and many more—and through their conversations and conduct, ideas and vicissitudes, creates a genre-painting of eighteenth-century China.
Departing from the impersonal tradition of Chinese fiction, Wu abandons such established narrative formulas as folk songs and poetic verse in favor of autobiographical experiences, descriptive realism, and characters modeled after his friends and relatives—elements that combine to give this critique of the Confucian civil service system an unprecedented immediacy and humor. The book also contains more than a dozen paintings in the traditional Chinese style.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 7.1mb
Overview: A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu’s The Scholars ranks with Outlaws of the Marsh, A Dream of Red Mansions, and Journey to the West as one of the greatest classic novels of China. This sarcastic work lashes out at the sycophancy and career-seeking of scholars under the feudal examination system and the general corruption of the feudal society. The author delineates a whole spectrum of characters—scholars, self-styled talents, wealthy merchants, venal officials, infatuated girls and many more—and through their conversations and conduct, ideas and vicissitudes, creates a genre-painting of eighteenth-century China.
Departing from the impersonal tradition of Chinese fiction, Wu abandons such established narrative formulas as folk songs and poetic verse in favor of autobiographical experiences, descriptive realism, and characters modeled after his friends and relatives—elements that combine to give this critique of the Confucian civil service system an unprecedented immediacy and humor. The book also contains more than a dozen paintings in the traditional Chinese style.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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