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This book takes Liu Zhenyun's novel "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" as the research object, revealing how this masterpiece of absurd realism uses a "fake divorce" as a prism to reflect the dilemma of the rule of law and the paradox of human nature in the transformation period of Chinese society. Focusing on the fierce collision between "procedural justice" and "local justice," the book provides an in-depth analysis of Li Xuelian's twenty-year history of struggle from marriage disputes to honor battles, as well as the collective anxiety and power alienation of officials at all levels under the logic of maintaining stability. Special attention is paid to Liu Zhenyun's iconic narrative art of the word "" - through layers of nested officialdom rhetoric and a cyclical complaint track, individual tragedies are sublimated into a profound allegory of bureaucracy and cultural violence. The book also explores the symbolic oppression of women by the "Pan Jinlian" stigma, the metaphorical adaptation of the film's circular format, and the changes in women's struggle narratives from Qiu Ju to Li Xuelian. It finally penetrates the absurd appearance and presents the thousand-year-old knot of a nation between a human society and a civilization ruled by law, making Li Xuelian's "One Sentence Lawsuit" an eternal echo of questioning social justice.
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