A byproduct of reform in China is corruption, it spreads everywhere. And later, it penetrates into the academic field, and thus the academic community have had great changes. Some universities became bureaucratic, and some academic leaders became politicians. Their manipulation and malpractice makes it difficult for elitist, honest scholars to survive. Through a typical case of academic corruption, this novel depicts the irreconcilable confrontation between scholars and politicians. In-depth it exposes the characteristics of academic corruption, and the fundamental conflict of outlook on life and value behind it. This novel also involves how the protagonist struggles in the China-US cultural conflict with his ups and downs in his life course in US. It's rare to take academic corruption as the theme in a novel. At present, the works about corruption in the field of education are mostly the replications from other areas, such as bribery and so on, and does not deeply reflect the characteristics of academic corruption. Another feature of this novel is psychological description, which is rare in novels. Generally novels use language and behavior as the main means to start the plot. But corrupt people do not openly declare or act as they planned. This novel, through the vivid psychological description, exposes the inside world of the mind of corrupt people, so that they have no escape.
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