The People's Secretary: Fighting Corruption in the People's Party
In: From Inside China
In: From Inside China (I)
The principle of serving the people resonates with one of the main problems China is facing today: that of official corruption. This book is a testament to the efforts of one model Chinese official, Liang Yurun, to address corruption in one particular county of northeast China, Xiaxian County in Shanxi province. The book narrates case after case in which the common people had been victimized by corrupt officials, transforming what were initially fairly simple problems, which should have had simple solutions, into strange, menacing and often haunting situations, involving unbelievable suffering