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Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School

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Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School
A popular romantic literary school in early 20th-century China (primarily Shanghai) that focused on love stories between gifted scholars and beautiful ladies; it was later criticized by socialist realists for its commercialism and traditionalist sentiment.