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Midnight", formerly known as "Sunset", is a modern Chinese novel**, about 300,000 words. Mao Dun began writing in October 1931 and completed the manuscript on December 5, 1932, with a total of 19 chapters. Some chapters have been published in ** Monthly and Literary Monthly, respectively.

For more than half a century, Midnight has not only had a wide readership in China, but has also been translated into more than a dozen languages including English, German, Russian, and Japanese, and has had a wide international impact.

**Set in the semi-feudal and semi-colonial old Shanghai in 1930 and centered on the national capitalist Wu Sunfu, it depicts the various contradictions and struggles in Chinese society at that time.

The sun has just set the horizon. The soft wind blew on the human face one after another, and it was strangely itchy. The turbid waters of Suzhou Creek turned golden green and flowed softly, quietly, to the west.

Somehow, the tide in Huangpu has risen, and now the boats along both sides of the Suzhou Creek are floating high, and the decks are about half a foot higher than the wharf.

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Mao Dun's classic book "Midnight", the background of this book is Shanghai in the early 30s of the 20th century, it is a very good **, very philosophical, I highly recommend you to read this**.

At that time, the society was in a period of chaos, with multiple social natures coexisting, and there were constant disputes over the social nature of the state. This book describes how individuals adapt to the situation of the country and how they can grow up in the complex nature of society.

Midnight is Mao Dun's landmark realist masterpiece. Works to:"Midnight"As the name, it symbolizes the darkest social reality before the dawn of China. Through a panoramic and large-scale artistic depiction of China's intricate social life and social contradictions in the early 30s of the twentieth century, especially the vivid description of the situation and future of the Chinese national bourgeoisie, it artistically, accurately and profoundly reveals the social nature of China at that time

That is, it is impossible for China to embark on the capitalist road of independent development under imperialist aggression, and can only become more and more colonized. In the warlord melee, the rural economy was severely damaged; Under the political situation in which imperialism has intensified its aggression and caused an unprecedented crisis in China's national industry and commerce, the Chinese national bourgeoisie can only end up with the historical fate of comprador or bankruptcy in the struggle with the comprador bourgeoisie supported by imperialism and domestic reactionaries.