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Don't Take Sides: the Survival Rules for Minor Officials in the Northern Song Dynasty
In the third year of Xining, Shen Yan, a scholar from a poor family, was thrown to a remote small county to become the ninth-grade bookkeeper. At the time when Wang Anshi was carrying out his political reform, the old and new parties were beginning to fight, the bigwigs in the court were fighting to the death, and local government affairs were being changed day by day - the new laws implemented yesterday may become useless tomorrow. Shen Yan has no background or backing, and his only philosophy
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I Chased That Senior Official for Sixteen Years
In the spring of 1996, three grams of gold were seized, and the gears of fate of a lawyer, a prosecutor, and a judge were turning at the same time. In the following thirty years, there were fifteen cases, ranging from speculation to illegal fund-raising, from redress of injustice to public interest litigation - they stood in court again and again, and held the line again and again. In 2017, the case they had been chasing for half their lives was finally coming to a close. But the night before
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