01743cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000270011324500200014024600350016024600280019526400510022330000470027433600260032133700260034733800360037350000870040950000310049650800300052752006820055753400450123965300610128485600430134599900170138824138UtSlPG20260610133543.0mcr n260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7azh2iso639-1 4aPL1 aLi, Boyuan,d1867-190610a官場現形記1 aExposure of the Official World1 aGuan chang xian xing ji 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2008  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officialdom_Unmasked  aRelease date is 2008-01-03  aProduced by Liu Meng-Tien  a"官場現形記" by Boyuan Li is a late-Qing Chinese novel written between 1901 and 1906. This sprawling satirical work exposes the corruption and disintegration of China's civil service bureaucracy through over 800 characters and numerous interconnected episodes. The novel follows officials, aspiring bureaucrats, merchants, and women caught in a deteriorating system, weaving together themes of state decline, imperialism, and the commercialization of human relationships. With over 600,000 Chinese characters, this masterpiece of satirical writing offers an inventive and coherent critique of society's mercantile orientation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChina -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912 -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24138  c65139d65139