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Fortress Besieged Author: Qian Zhongshu Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Fortress Besieged Author: Qian Zhongshu Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Fortress Besieged has been the best-selling novel for 30 years. Fortress Besieged is the only novel written by Qian Zhongshu and is considered a classic of modern and contemporary Chinese novels. The novel portrays a group of intellectuals at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, vividly reflecting the behavior, ethics, and confusion of a special group of people in a specific period of the country. It describes the scene and atmosphere at that time from another perspective. Although there is a specific historical background, this novel only reveals the weaknesses of the crowd, which can still resonate with people today. The first edition was published by Shanghai Chenguang Publishing Company in 1947. Fortress Besieged is a satirical novel with a unique style in the history of modern Chinese literature. It is known as the "New Scholars".
“People inside the city want to escape, and people outside the city want to rush in. Whether it’s marriage or career, most people’s wishes in life are like this.” - Yang Jiang
About the Author · · · · · ·
Qian Zhongshu, whose original name was Yangxian, whose courtesy names were Zheliang, Mocun, Huaiju, and Zhongshujun, was a famous modern Chinese writer and literary researcher. He was a member of the English translation team of Selected Works of Mao Zedong. In his later years, he worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as vice president. Book critic Xia Zhiqing believed that the novel Fortress Besieged was "the most interesting and carefully crafted novel in modern Chinese literature, and perhaps the greatest one." His achievements in literature, national history, comparative literature, and cultural criticism were even dubbed "Qian Studies" by his admirers.
