Fortress Besieged is written by the famous Chinese scholar and writer. It has been recognized as one of the important academic and literary classic works.The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era.  Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.

Fortress Besieged (Chinese Edition)

QIAN ZHONG SHU

Peoples Literature Publishing House

Fortress Besieged is written by the famous Chinese scholar and writer. It has been recognized as the important academic and literary classic works.

People's Literature Publishing House

Fortress Besieged, written by Qian Zhongshu, portrayed vividly varied aspects of sophisticated life with a combination of ups and downs. Qin Zhongshu Incorporated his talented diction, profound knowledge, and sense of humor with some satiric ingredients into this book and made this book a classic.

Fortress Besieged (Hardbacks) (Chinese Edition)

围城(精)

Siege [paperback]

Unknown

human-animal Ghost [Paperback]

life. reading. Joint Publishing; 1 (May 1. 2002)

Mr. Qian Zhongshu is famous Chinese contemporary scholar and writer. His works, such as On The Art of Poetry, Fortress Besieged and Guan Zhui Bian have become the significant academic and literature classics in the 20th century. To comprehensively show the academic thoughts and literature accomplishments of Mr. Qian Zhongshu, with authorization of the author, Sanlian Bookstore edited this set of Collection of Qian Zhongshu.

Fortress Besieged, Men, Beasts And Ghosts/Anthology of Qian Zhongshu (Chinese Edition)

SDX Joint Publishing Company

管锥编(共4册钱锺书集)

生活·读书·新知三联书店

Intended for learners of Chinese as a second language, this is an abridged version of the novel by Qian Zhongshu, a renowned writer, scholar, and classical Chinese expert. With the hero Fang Hongjian’s experience as the subject, the novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life of some intellectuals in a morbid society during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Lacking in motives and ideals, they seem to be locked in a besieged city unable to free themselves. Maintaining the major plots true to the original, the abridged version of 40,000 words, represents approximately one-sixth of the original 230,000 Chinese characters.

Abridged Chinese Classic Series: The Besieged City

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Sinolingua Co.,Ltd

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