林家铺子

by Mao Dun

《子夜》最早由开明书店出版，受到鲁迅、瞿秋白等人的高度评价，先后被译为英、德、俄、日等十几种文字，在国外出版发行。一九三〇年春夏之交，国民党各派系之间的内战打得不可开交，世界经济危机迫使英、美、日等国家对中国进行经济侵略，中国民族工业深受池鱼之苦，工人罢工不断兴起，农村经济濒临破产。“子夜”是这个动荡、黑暗时代的象征。茅盾被誉为“三十年代的画家”。他站在时代的制高点，鸟瞰上海，在《子夜》中描绘了一幅二十世纪三十年代中国社会广阔而真实的历史画卷——繁华的外滩码头、忙碌的债券交易所；纸醉金迷的社交场中，政客、军人、商人、投机者享受歌舞升平；为了生存，丝厂的工人、饥饿的农民在死亡线上挣扎……小说《子夜》是一部“现代中国变革的罗曼史”，“不论取材、思想到气魄，都是中国新文学划时代的巨制”（朱自清），“迄今为止没有丧失它的意义和影响力”（沃尔夫冈？顾彬）。《子夜》被列入“教育部《普通高中语文课程标准》”，是中学生必读书目之一。

Paperback

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Mao Dun (4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing), a 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and the Minister of Culture of People's Republic of China (1949–65). He is one of the most celebrated left-wing realist novelists of modern China. His most famous works are Ziye, a novel depicting life in cosmopolitan Shanghai, and Spring Silkworms. He also wrote many short stories.

He adopted "Mao Dun" (Chinese: 矛盾), meaning "contradiction", as his pen name to express the tension in the conflicting revolutionary ideology in China in the unstable 1920s. His friend Ye Shengtao changed the first character from 矛 to 茅, which literally means "thatch".

(from Wikipedia)