The Different Writing Style of Officialdom Novels—On Liu Wei's Long Novel Stepping up the Stairs

As a unique novel on officialdom,Stepping up the Stairs takes Liu Hao-ran's experience in the officialdom as centre to reveal many aspects of contemporary officialdom.This novel creates a group of scholar-officials and describes the principles of being an official and being a human being positively,it balances the relationship between praise and reveal,which shines in the gray officialdom novels.Moreover,the conscious cultural interpretation and poetic expression make the officialdom novels have strong literary color.In a word,this novel expresses the ideal Confucianism tendency to manage the country by self-disciplined officials and has a good taste of culture.