Lost

Author: Liu Xinglong
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: The work uses the power struggle, human and event transformations in a small rural county as the structural thread of the story, taking the mutation of human nature as the narrative starting point to construct the rural power field and weave a grand political power allegory. With courage and a sense of justice, the author portrays the political, economic, and cultural soil that breeds corruption. The corrupt officials here are not people with moral flaws, nor are they petty rats. In any sense, they are elites. The work directly targets the sordidness of the rural officialdom, the flaws in the personnel system, and the prevalence of officialism. Before you is the "loss of moral standards," the "loss of the soul of 'serving the people'," and the oblivion of conscience and the helplessness of redemption, filled with profound critical spirit and tragic awareness.