The novel "Besieged Fortress" reflects the spirit of social criticism and the humanistic aspirations of the Chinese intelligentsia in the late thirties of our century. This is a story about the spiritless life of the then Chinese "educated" society, about its uncertainty about the future, about the scarcity, pettiness, instability of the very existence of this layer of people. The work is written with humor, the title of the novel is borrowed from the French dictum: "Marriage is like a besieged fortress: who outside wants to join, who inside wants to leave. "The writer's stories are a subtle satire on the Chinese intelligentsia of those years.