英雄时代

Lu Zhentian, a veteran of the revolution who rose to the Politburo, raised two sons. Shi Tianxiong, the orphan of revolutionary martyrs, is his foster son and son-in-law: a hero of the war with Vietnam and a devoted Party man, he becomes a deputy department head in a national ministry at forty-one, then resigns to go into retail. Lu Chengwei, Lu Zhentian's own son, was sent to the countryside as a youth before studying in the United States, and comes home a financier who uses every connection and loophole to build a fortune. Brothers without shared blood, they meet as rivals in business in Xiping, a provincial capital in the southwest, and the clash of their beliefs plays out against the rise of private wealth and the crisis of the state enterprises in China's market reforms.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2001 by People's Literature Publishing House

Author's age

38 when first published