She Nan-nan

The story of the strange medical literature growing up with the motherland in the decades from the early years of the Republic of China to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.