1, Fang Hung-chien: The protagonist of this book. High spirit, shallow knowledge, no specialization, external wisdom and internal alcohol, less worldly. I studied in western Europe and went with the flow after returning home, but I tried to keep my own.

Zhao: He studied in America. Although he comes from a famous family, he is sophisticated in appearance and mellow in heart. He is Sue's childhood friend. After falling in love, he became Fang Hung-chien's best friend.

3. Tang Xiaofu: Sue's cousin, smart, lively, cheerful and generous, was Fang Hung-chien's love object at first sight, and later she misunderstood and broke up because Sue tried to provoke her.

4. Sun Roujia: He, Fang Hung-chien and Zhao Yi served as English teaching assistants in the Foreign Languages Department of the University. She was supple in appearance and reserved in heart, and later married Fang Hung-chien.

5. Su: Doctor of Literature, University of Lyon, France, born in a noble official family, "as cold as ice, as gorgeous as peaches and plums", sophisticated.

6. Miss Bao: The overseas students who returned to China with Fang Hung-chien are on their way home with Su, Fang Hung-chien's one-night lover.

7. Fang Fu and Fang Mu: the traditional old squire couple in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces of China, Fang Hung-chien's parents.

8. Zhou Fu and Zhou Mu: Fang Hung-chien's mother-in-law (due to the premature death of his fiancee) is also an investor who sent Fang Hung-chien to study abroad.

9. Dong Xiechuan: Zhao's friend is a counsellor abroad. Born in a traditional scholarly family, the family is familiar with ancient poetry.

10, Chu: Zhao's friend, a "philosopher" who studies behind closed doors, is good at opportunism, mystifying and self-promotion.

1 1, Cao: Doctor of Literature, Cambridge University, England, and later became Sue's husband.

Gao Songnian: President of San Lv University, a typical academic bureaucrat.

13, Li: Acting Dean of San Lv University, vulgar and greedy, wandering in the intellectual world as an academic mediocrity.

14, Wang Chuhou: Head of the Department of China Literature, San Lv University, retired from academia after being frustrated in officialdom.

15. Mrs. Wang: Wang Chuhou's young wife led Zhao to escape from the ambiguous object of the university and was also the ambiguous object of President Gao Songnian.

16, Han: Head of the Department of History, San Lv University, an academic liar wandering in the intellectual world.

17, Liu Dongfang: Director of the Foreign Languages Department of San Lv University, who had hoped to marry his sister to Fang Hung-chien.

18, Lu Zixiao: A young teacher of San Lv University, a secret admirer of Sun Roujia, likes to pretend to be deep and boastful.

19: Zhao, a secret admirer and suitor of college female students.

Fortress Besieged is a novel written by Qian Zhongshu. The first edition was published by Shanghai Chen Guang Publishing Company on 1947. After 1949, due to political reasons, this book could not be reprinted in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province for a long time, and only pirated copies appeared in Hongkong. 1980 was revised by the author and published by Chinese mainland People's Literature Publishing House. Since then, the author has slightly revised it several times and reprinted it.

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Story outline

The story takes place from 1920 to 1940s. Fang Hung-chien, the hero, is a young man who came out of a squire family in the south of China. Fang Hung-chien was forced by family pressure to get engaged to a woman who was also Zhou. However, during his college years, Zhou Sheng became ill and died very early. Later, he went abroad to study.

During his study tour in Europe, Fang neglected his studies. In order to explain to his family, Fang bought a fictitious doctor's degree certificate from Clayton University before graduation and returned to China with international students. I met and fell in love with Miss Bao, a foreign student on the boat, but she cheated me. At the same time, I also met Sue, a college classmate who came back from studying abroad in the same boat.

After arriving in Shanghai, I worked in a bank run by Mr. Zhou, the father of my late fiancee. At this time, Fang won the favor of Su and fell in love with Su's cousin at first sight, so he spent all his time between Su and Tang, and met Zhao, who pursued Su enthusiastically, which led to some misunderstandings and love struggles between Zhao.

Fang finally ended his relationship with Sue and Tang. Sue married the poet Cao Yuanlang, but he knew Fang was not his rival in love, so he married Fang who admired each other. During this period, Fang Hung-chien gradually fell out with the Zhou family.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Fang fled to Shanghai Concession. On Zhao's recommendation, Fang went to mainland universities to teach under Zhao, Gu Erqian and Li. Because of the weakness of Fang Hung-chien's personality, he fell into complicated interpersonal disputes. After being engaged to Sun Roujia, she left San Lv University and returned to Shanghai. With Zhao's help, Fang Hung-chien worked in a newspaper and married him.

After marriage, the contradiction between Fang Hung-chien and his wife Fang Jia and Sun Roujia menstruation was exposed and intensified. Fang Hung-chien resigned, quarreled with Sun Roujia, and gradually lost hope for life.

theme

Fortress Besieged is a novel with multiple meanings. This novel describes a large number of intellectuals in the 1930s. They lived in the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. They all came back from studying abroad and were influenced by western culture. However, they lack lofty ideals, courage to fight against traditional forces and concepts, and even can't control their own lives.

Reveals the helplessness of life and the magic of fate. From marriage to life, the protagonist Fang Hung-chien longs to jump out of the besieged city, but falls into another besieged city, depicting the struggle and bondage between life and the real world.

Creation background

Fortress Besieged is Qian Zhongshu's only novel (another novel, Heart of Lily, was lost before it was finished, and the author never wrote it again). It started at 1944 and ended at 1946, and was printed and distributed by Shanghai Chen Guang Publishing Company 1947. The book is Qian Zhongshu's Miser, and the novel is based on his familiar times, familiar places and familiar social classes. But the characters and plots that make up the story are fictional.

Although some characters have some real shadows, everything is fake; Some plots are slightly true, but the characters are all made up. The hero "Fang Hung-chien" is based on two relatives: one is ambitious but not knowledgeable, always complaining; An arrogant singer. Both of them have read Fortress Besieged, but neither of them thought of Fang Hung-chien because they have never experienced Fang Hung-chien's experience. "

References:

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