Diary of a naked official
By: Ouyang Yu
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781921924705
Subjects: Bribery; Fiction
Description: Anonymous, the keeper of the diary, deputy director of a publishing company in a nameless city in China, is a happily married man with a daughter until he succumbs fully to his sexual desires, forever searching for new erotic experiences and secret liaisons. Anonymous is able to hoard a fortune, by embezzlement or corruption, with which he buys permanent resident status for his wife and daughter in the West. He stays behind in China, a situation commonly referred to as a naked official in contemporary Chinese terminology, one who has nothing to fear when exposed because his family is safely installed overseas with all his money.