Fortress Besieged

Qian Zhongshu · 1947 CE · Novel · Chinese · Modernist

Fang Hongjian comes home to wartime China with a doctorate he bought by mail and no idea what to do with himself. He drifts through courtships, a long overland journey to a third-rate inland university, and a teaching post he is not equal to. Everyone outside a marriage wants in and everyone inside wants out.

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• influenced by ↑ The Scholars
  Wu Jingzi · 1750 CE · Novel

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