Breaking the Net
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in educated-youth themes and contemporary realist fiction
- Those who wish to understand grassroots township work and the condition of local officials
- Readers who enjoy seeing generational change refracted through character growth
- Readers concerned with the relationship between spiritual choices and fate in hardship
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer high-suspense, fast-paced plots
- Readers looking only for light, entertaining stories
- Readers with little interest in grassroots work settings
Reading tips
- Read the educated-youth years and the township-work years as two separate experiences first, then compare how the characters' states change.
- Pay attention to Zhou Shiyi's working methods and governance approaches in different posts, and take brief notes.
- Reading alongside elders' memories of educated-youth or grassroots work can make the characters' circumstances and choices easier to understand.
About the publisher
Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional literature and art publisher. Judging from the books in the database, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, world classics, prose and miscellaneous writings, and classic works, while also covering literary appreciation and cultural reading. Representative titles include The Painter of Modern Life, Jane Eyre, Six Chapters of a Floating Life, The Moon and Sixpence, Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin, A Sportsman's Sketches, and Collected Prose of Famous Masters, involving Chinese and foreign authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Shen Fu, and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as translators including Guo Hong'an, Chen Jinhui, Jing Xing, and Jiao Haili. Overall, the press emphasizes the introduction of classic texts and the compilation of prose works, presenting a publishing profile centered on literary reading and cultural accumulation. As public information is limited, other aspects are not elaborated here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 关于写小说
- 楔子
- 上卷 难忘岁月
- 第一章 直面人生
- 第二章 迎难而上
- 第三章 烦恼
- 第四章 煎熬
- 第五章 “周郎”与“小乔”
- 第六章 相逢一‘拳’泯恩仇
- 第七章 庙山双杰
- 第八章 果然妙招
- 第九章 心事
- 第十章 隐忍
- 第十一章 得失
- 第十二章 风流云散
- 中卷 奋发年华
- 第十三章 变轨
- 第十四章 “班子”分工
- 第十五章 感悟与感慨
- 第十六章 初识官场
- 第十七章 规则
- 第十八章 见解
- 第十九章 脱颖而出
- 第二十章 意外之喜
- 第二十一章 县委书记找谈话
- 第二十二章 官场伦理
- 下卷 崎岖心路
- 第二十三章 棘手之事
- 第二十四章 乡长吃饭像小偷
- 第二十五章 父老乡亲
- 第二十六章 人性
- 第二十七章 品味
- 第二十八章 解难高手
- 第二十九章 声高盖主
- 第三十章 负重
- 第三十一章 勉为其难
- 第三十二章 窘境
- 第三十三章 问策
- 第三十四章 “乌托邦”
- 第三十五章 涉险
- 第三十六章 临危受命
- 后记
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About the author
Yuan Meichang is an author about whom limited public information is available. To date, two works are known under this name: Po Wang (Breaking the Net) and Xuan Wo (The Whirlpool). Both are commonly classified as social novels, suggesting that their writing draws on social reality and focuses on human relationships, circumstances, and conflicts, using plot development to present the complex aspects of social life. Judging from the available bibliographic information, Yuan Meichang has produced only a small number of works, all centered on social themes, with a style that tends toward depicting reality through narrative and conveying social observation through storytelling. Because details of the author's life, educational background, and writing career have not been disclosed, little can be confirmed about the person behind the books; this introduction is based solely on the work information available in the database. Readers who wish to learn more about this author may begin with the two novels Po Wang and Xuan Wo to appreciate the narrative orientation and thematic concerns of these social novels.
