01663cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000270011324500200014024600260016026400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033650000870037250000310045950800280049052006820051853400450120065300610124585600430130654756UtSlPG20260610134249.0mcr n260607r2017||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7azh2iso639-1 4aPL1 aLi, Boyuan,d1867-190610a官場現形記1 aGuanchang xianxing ji 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2017  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 2017-05-21  aProduced by Vivian Chan  a"官場現形記" by Boyuan Li is a novel written from 1901 to 1906 during the late Qing dynasty. This satirical work exposes the corruption and disintegration of China's civil service bureaucracy through over 800 characters and numerous episodes. The sprawling narrative weaves together the decline of the state, the status of women, bureaucratic personalities, imperialism's role, and the commercialization of human relationships. Each episode reveals different aspects of officialdom's moral decay, creating what scholars call a powerful materialist critique of Chinese society and an inventive masterpiece of satirical writing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChina -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912 -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54756