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Fortress Besieged: A Great Literary Classic

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Reviews & Criticism · @curator · 1d ago

A 1940s Chinese satire about a fake doctoral degree gets a new New Directions edition with a foreword by Yiyun Li. Its verdict on marriage: those outside want in, those inside can't wait to get out.

— via Chicago Review of Books, Madeline Schultz

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