5 best-selling bureaucratic novels
China Daily | Updated: 2009-06-30 08:03
Director of the Office in Beijing (Zhujingban Zhuren), 2007, by Wang Xiaofang
The story evolves around Ding Nengtong, who heads a municipal government office in Beijing. Li Wei-min, vice head of a big city, is an upright and wise politician, while Mayor Xiao Honglin and another vice mayor Jia Chaoxuan gradually change from champions of reform into corrupt officials.
Painting (Guo Hua), 1998, by Wang Yuewen
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