The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years is a novel.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Woyao made it.
One hundred and eight times. The whole book takes the business activities of the character "Nine Dead Lives" as a clue, writes about his encounters, sees, and hears, and is interspersed with many short stories. The "strange situation" witnessed by the "Nine Deaths in One Life" mainly includes greed for money and bribery and fraud in The Chinese officialdom; collusion between officials and businessmen in shopping malls; and deception and deception in foreign fields; and drunken dreams of death in foreign fields.
Twenty years of witnessing the strange status quo
Among them, the black often exposed feudal bureaucracy is the most acute. The work is vivid and satirical. However, the comic depiction of characters, especially the advocacy of restoring old morality to transform the "strange status quo", weakens the profound exposure and criticism of the essence of society, and is limited to superficial phenomena of poor bad words and condemnations.
There is a 1957 annotated edition of Zhang Youhe by the People's Literature Publishing House.