Notes on the Cat City. A Book for Reading in Chinese

The famous Chinese dystopia Notes on the Cat City. This prophetic book was written in the 1930s by Lao She, a Chinese writer, playwright, and satirist. His real name is Shu Qingchun; the pseudonym Lao She plays on the name:... old man She. And his Martian chronicles with cat-people are a satirical mirror of Chinese society during the civil war.
In the introduction, Lao She wrote: cat-people are people-cats and have nothing to do with us. The author, with a unique artistic intuition, describes the twilight of a whole civilization. Will we recognize modern Earth's inhabitants in the Martian cat-people?..
The book contains the unadapted text of the novel in Chinese. Reading Lao She in the original is a special pleasure. Difficult words for perception are supplemented with comments.