Fortress Besieged by Jeanne Kelly, Qian Zhongshu, Nathan K. Mao

416 pages first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction classics funny reflective slow-paced
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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 m...

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