On the Wasteland, 1979

In the winter of 1964, nineteen-year-old Fan Jianghai plunged into an icy mud pit to save a well. From that day on, he climbed upward. Deputy section chief, department head, county magistrate... Every step was built on someone else's needs. His wife, Wang Xiuqin, kept twenty-four account books, recording everything from 1967 to 2006. This is the story of how a man went bad: not in a single day, but a little more each day.