I don't know when the ban on "Chinese Painting" was quietly lifted. You can read online, and Jingdong Books and Dangdang can place orders to buy physical books.
After the book was banned, its fame grew. In fact, the author has written a lot of books about officialdom, and this book can be regarded as exposing more unspoken rules of officialdom, but it only lists many phenomena, giving people the impression that "there are no good people in Hongtong County". In comparison, I prefer the author's other book, "Between the Morning and the Night", and I think that the intellectual feelings and pursuits there are of a higher level.
Is Zhu Huaijing a good official?I didn't think it was so bad. "Chinese Painting" is actually a history of his degeneration in politics, or in other words, the history of assimilation. Forced to be honest when he was unwilling, he quickly integrated after promotion, and merged with his original haters, Zhu Huaijing changed quickly and very silky and natural. Especially from the perspective of finding a lover, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I didn't have the conditions before. The author may have written some of his little entanglements and small reflections in order to let everyone understand him, but this did not affect him to go further and further on the road of corruption, and by the way, it also affected his family (his wife and his wife's cousin were all led crooked by him).
There are a lot of details, but there is not much thought. This **, there is no depth, there is no need to be a must-read.
It's just that if it's written about the reality of the workplace, it's still quite scary.