Liu E.

劉鶚 Liu E (Huai'an 1857 - Dihua 1909) is a modern Chinese writer. He was a civil servant and was interested in Western techniques; He also set out to be a commercial entrepreneur. As Gabriel García-Noblejas indicates, Liu E knew how to rise to the occasion, maintaining his integrity and honesty in the context of corruption, provincialism and demoralization that devastated a large part of Chinese society in those years . His novels The Decrepit Old Man (老殘遊記) and The Travels of the Good Doctor Can offer a very interesting description of the China of his time, to such an extent that his death It occurs two years before the end of the Qing dynasty, when the nationalist insurrectional movement occurs in 1911.