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050 4 _aPL
100 1 _aLi, Boyuan,
_d1867-1906
245 1 0 _a官場現形記
246 1 _aExposure of the Official World
246 1 _aGuan chang xian xing ji
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officialdom_Unmasked
500 _aRelease date is 2008-01-03
508 _aProduced by Liu Meng-Tien
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aChina -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912 -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24138
999 _c65139
_d65139