Lost

Author: Liu Xinglong
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Publishing Date: 2001-04-01
Features: The work uses the power struggle, human and events changes in a small rural county as the structural threads of the story, with the mutation of human nature as the narrative starting point to construct the rural power field and weave a grand political power fable. The author, with courage and a sense of justice, writes about the political, economic, and cultural soil that breeds corruption. Here, the corrupt officials are not people with moral flaws, nor are they incompetent cowards. 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 official-centricism. Presented to you is the "loss of moral standards," the "loss of the soul of 'serving the people'," as well as the extinguishing of conscience and the helplessness of redemption, filled with profound critical spirit and tragic awareness.