Which modern novel is called The New Scholars?

Fortress Besieged is called The New Scholars. Fortress Besieged is a novel by Qian Zhongshu and a satirical novel with unique style in the history of modern literature in China. Known as the "new scholar". The first edition was published by Shanghai Chen Guang Publishing Company on 1947. This story is mainly about a group of intellectuals in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

The book Fortress Besieged was written by the miser of Qian Zhongshu. The novel has no clear story clues, but some trivial plots pieced together by the author's trivial knowledge and experience.

Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged takes language to the highest level. The novel deeply analyzes and criticizes the gray life and humble soul of the upper-class intellectuals in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and truly reflects the various drawbacks of the old China society that is about to collapse. In art, the psychological description is exquisite, the metaphor is novel and ingenious, and the language is humorous and alert.

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Fortress Besieged contains profound ideological implications.

First of all, it is the level of social criticism. Through the life course of the protagonist Fang Hung-chien, the work criticizes the shortcomings of national politics and all sentient beings in the Kuomintang-controlled areas in the 1930s and 1940s, including the corruption and depravity of Shanghai's westernized commercial port, the backwardness and seclusion of mainland rural areas, and the corruption and depravity of education and intellectual circles.

Secondly, it is the level of cultural criticism. This is mainly achieved through the description of the "new Confucian forest" and the shaping of the image of a group of overseas students or senior intellectuals.

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