In 1990, Chen Jingzhi, a graduate of the Chinese Department, took the public examination. He entered the officialdom of a remote town without any background or support. He had no golden finger to predict the future, no aura of nobles falling from the sky, but only a bookish spirit and an unquenchable ideal, and he began a thirty-seven-year journey in a system where human relationships are like a network and rules are like iron.
