Chapter 152: The situation
Tang Wu took advantage of the break to take on work at Facebook Chinese, handling business planning within the company, and picked it up quickly. Facebook Chinese had poached several well-known figures in the field for this division. One of them even knew a relative of hers, and when he first saw Tang Wu, he kept looking her over in disbelief.
Strictly speaking, her parents' generation had little influence in Shanghai. Her grandmother, however, was a hidden heavyweight who essentially never appeared in the papers, gave interviews, or acted conspicuously unless necessary. This also had something to do with the Central Party School's current way of doing things.
In 2002 and 2003, the Central Party School was still shrouded in mystery to outsiders. People said that if you asked where drivers were most careful in Beijing, a city full of powerful people, the answer was still the Central Party School. Whatever their rank or license plates, vehicles there noticeably gave way to pedestrians, because any pedestrian might turn out to be a state councilor or a future general secretary.
As China's most mysterious institution of higher education, it was not yet as open to outside visitors as it would be in later years, nor was its management of students as strict. Naturally, certain negative social practices had carried over into the school, and some problems remained unresolved, so its being less enlightened and open than in later years was only to be expected. But this did nothing to diminish its political influence. Tang Wu's grandmother, Mu Qin, might already have nurtured a great many protégés who wielded substantial regional power. In terms of influence, anyone who had reached a certain rank would already know Mu Qin's name very well.
The greatest sound was barely heard. Now