二十年目睹之怪現狀

A young man who calls himself Nine Deaths travels among the officials, merchants and swindlers of the late Qing for twenty years and writes down every fraud he sees. A sprawling satirical novel of a society where nothing is what it pretends to be. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.