A Police Career of a Pseudo-Intellectual

Author: He Fan
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This is a magical literary work that lacks a central villain or conflict throughout, with simple and slightly ironic language. Yet, it created hundreds of thousands of clicks and numerous replies in major online communities like Tianya and CSDN. University students reposted the article on BBS forums across various campuses, receiving rave reviews; young white-collar workers in office buildings could recite the characters and passages in the story like their own. Even the police chief of a certain region in Guangdong demanded that the entire text be printed and distributed to all officers.
At a time when writing in the late 1970s was increasingly overshadowed by the styles of bourgeois sentimentality, body-centric expression, and desire, at least this work, with its strong youthful vibe, still tells us about distant campuses, pure love, melancholic heroes, and the ideals that always belonged to the era of white-gloved youth. The life of a young police officer, the fate of a group of young people who went from university campuses to the police force, the progress and historical journey of a city—or even a nation—in just four years—within the grand narrative of history, he rewrites the familiar historical discourse. Through this work, years later, we will still be able to recall the years around the turn of the century, the ordinary appearance of a great city.
This is a work that touches the hearts of countless people. We are moved and shaken by the emotional scenes that flow from the story. The melancholy that lingers in the text, intertwined with the growth of youth and first love, the helplessness of facing the harsh reality of the world for the first time, the brotherhood that evokes the same sighs and reflections as love, and the righteous spirit that rises in the face of darkness and injustice—sometimes make us pause and reflect, sometimes bring tears to our eyes, and sometimes stir our blood.