2022年10月11日 · Considered by most critics to be either the most important or one of the two most important works of modern Chinese literature, Fortress Besieged, by Qian Zhongshu (1910–98), depicts the complicated and often conflicted lives of a set of Chinese intellectuals on the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45).

…short stories; and Weicheng (1947; Fortress Besieged), a novel. Although it was widely translated, Qian’s novel did not receive much recognition in China until the late 1970s. It became a best-seller in China in the 1980s and was made into a …

2013年10月13日 · Qian Zhongshu is a tough sell for the Nobel Prize, but he deserves it for Fortress Besieged alone.

2022年7月14日 · Fortress Besieged is a complex novel with many different themes. First is love – it is most well known for the quote “marriage is like a fortress besieged: those who are outside want to get in and those who are inside want to get out”.

2021年11月17日 · Published in 1947, Fortress Besieged is the only novel ever written by Qian Zhongshu. It humorously describes the war-torn 1930s Chinese middle class and is recognized as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century Chinese literature.

2017年7月30日 · “Fortress Besieged”, the most famous novel of celebrated Chinese fiction writer Qian Zhongshu, has been digitized, 70 years after it was first published.

A magnificent litany of misadventures, Fortress Besieged draws from traditions of both China and the West to create its own unique feast of delights. The renowned scholar of Chinese history, Jonathan Spence, provides a new foreword to this exquisite translation.

Fortress Besieged was initially published in China in 1947 and is debatably considered one of the finest Chinese novels of last century and for good reason; it is that rare book that borders on the literary yet defines its goals without losing its readability.