Serve the People!

A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary, world-class storyteller.

Originally banned in China, this is a wickedly daring tale about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian - the young, pretty wife of a powerful official in Mao's Communist government - and her household's lowly servant, 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