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Ziye (子夜), or known by it English translated title as Midnight: A Romance of China, 1930, is a 1933 novel by Chinese author Mao Dun. It is a realist depiction of life in contemporary Shanghai. In addition to the full edition, there were also abridged editions of the novel in publication.
2 de ago. de 2023 · This is an important political and cultural novel by famed Chinese author Mao Dun (1896–1985). The story surrounds the business tycoon Wu Sun-fu and his struggles in China during the great changes in the country during the 1930s.
A novel about the violence and corruption in Nationalist China in the 1930's by Shen Yanbing (1896-1981), better known by the pen name Mao Tun, was a member of the generation that created a...
9 de mar. de 2023 · Mao Dun's "Midnight" presents a gritty depiction of 1930s Shanghai, showing a city built on violence and corruption, with great wealth sitting alongside low wages, awful conditions, and exploitation. This is Shanghai as a powder keg about to explode.
Mao Dun: 子夜 (Midnight) Mao Dun’s novel is set in the late 1920s-early 1930s in and around Shanghai and clearly aims to show the decadence of the bourgeoisie at that time. He himself says in his introduction that he would have liked to give more prominence to the revolutionaries but was prevented from doing so by the censors.
Mao Dun's second novella deals with a very turbulent time in China - the 1930s. It is very intricate in its depiction of the rich and poor life of the people in Shanghai, and captures the Zeitgeist of xenophobia, doubt and conflicting ideologies in minute detail.
Spanning a short time of two months in the early summer of 1930, Ziye tells a story about the futile struggle of Chinese capitalists against foreign economic powers.
