The Trendsetter: Lu Tianming's Heaven Above
The Trendsetter: Lu Tianming's Heaven Above
This chapter examines Lu Tianming's political novel Heaven Above. It explains the storyline of the novel, which focuses on general corruption cases, and suggests that it was seminal in inspiring subsequent anticorruption fiction. The chapter contends that the novel's contribution to the discourse of corruption is the deployment of narrative elements evidently so useful in engaging popular outrage over corruption as to prefigure a popular genre or formula, discusses its take on realism, and highlights its adaptation into a television show.
Keywords: Heaven Above, Lu Tianming, political novel, corruption cases, anticorruption fiction, narrative elements, popular outrage, television show
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