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Serve the People!

A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary, world-class storyteller.Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, this is the tale of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian – the bored wife of a military commander – and a young soldier, Wu Dawang.When Liu Lian establishes a rule that Wu Dawang must attend to her needs whenever the household`s wooden `Serve the People!` sign is removed from its usual place, he vows to obey. What follows is both an enthralling love story and a deliciously comic satire on the political and sexual taboos of Mao`s regime.`Drips with the kind of satire that can only come from deep within the machinery of Chinese communism` Financial Times

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