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The story is simple and exquisite, centering around a few section officers of the Beijing Finance Institute and their families. It describes the daily lives of petty bureaucrats and ordinary citizens during the Republican period, gently satirizing their perfunctory approach to life. The vulgarity of the common people, the stubbornness of traditional concepts, the superficiality of the modern youth, and the revolt of the noble against the evil of mediocrity are all sketched by Lao She in a few strokes. But Lao She is not mean, his humor is thick...