personal grudge

  • The cruel official-merchant struggle in “Tian Qilang”

    The conflict between Wu Chengxiu (representing “merchants” and the wealthy class) and the censor’s younger brother (representing “officials” and power networks) in Strange Tales from Liaozhai: Tian Qilang may seem to stem from a servant’s misconduct, but it actually tears away the cruel veil of “struggles between officials and merchants” in feudal society.

  • Why Wukong spared the True Immortal Compliant?

    In Journey to the West, the Abortion Stream in the Child Destruction Cave, Male-Undoing Mountain of the Woman Kingdom had always been public property.