Years of Poems and Spirits

Read this story online (c)

Several threads in the story:
1. The constant tensions b/w urban and rural areas
2. The unfair/unequal opportunities presented to the peasants
3. How powerful/arbitary/comic the feudalistic authoritarian system China has (eye-blinker-to-death)
4. How easy to kill someone in China (again, blinking eye)
5. The self-grandising tendency from bottom-up: the Xian head to the CCP (has to have a Hungary-alike, otherwise uneasy)
6. Also eager mimicing (typical colonial response?)
7. What to think? Chekhov? Kafka?