Some of the stories you have read in the course are satires or have satiric elements. They
include Lu Xun’s “Soap”, Ye Shaojun’s “Rice”, Lao She’s “An old and Established Name”, Ba Jin’s
“The General”, Zhang Tianyi’s “The Bulwark”, Wu Zuxiang’s “Young Master Gets His Tonic”, and Qian
Zhongshu’s “The Inspiration”, Discuss their similarities and differences.