Break My ‘Fortress Besieged’ !
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3 min readDec 8, 2019
Before I introduce myself, I want to share everyone a book — Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu, a famous Chinese literary scholar and writer.
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family’s expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a fake university. On…