Penned by a former insider,The Civil Servant's Notebookis a political page-turner that offers a glimpse into the complex psyches of those who roam the guarded halls of Chinese officialdom.
Wang Xiaofang was born in 1963 in Shenyang, northeast China, and was private secretary to Shenyang Deputy Mayor Ma Xiangdong from 1997-1999. Ma achieved infamy for gambling and losing millions in public money in Macau's casinos, and was later sentenced to death for his crimes. Wang Xiaofang was found innocent of any involvement and left the service in 1999 to begin a career as political fiction writer. He has published thirteen novels of political fiction in China, and his works regularly top the bestseller charts. This is the first of his books to be published in English.
"Money. Power. Even sex, albeit offstage. Wang Xiaofang's novels
capture it all - in the dog-eat-dog world of Chinese bureaucracy."
--the Guardian
"Wang Xiaofang is the undisputed king of the genre." --the New
Yorker
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