Selected Works of Xiao Renfu

Author: Xiao Renfu
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The author's works often focus on the officialdom and personnel in government agencies. The depths of the official world are like the vast ocean, yet the leaders and officials who navigate it are all humans. Humans must eat, drink, defecate, urinate, sleep, age, get sick, and retire. Writers must write about the lives they are familiar with—this is undeniable. If they write about unfamiliar lives, it's inevitable that their work will feel like scratching an itch through a coat. Reading certain so-called officialdom novels, where the content revolves only around romantic relationships and eating, drinking, and having fun, one realizes the author is not an insider. It's not that the officialdom lacks romantic relationships or eating, drinking, and having fun, but these are not substantive elements of the official world. Writing about one's own familiar life is not enough; the readers must also be familiar with it.