With the TV play of Ode to Joy becoming more and more popular, the female office novel with the same title has been well received. The novel describes 5 women with different social strata and their experience of work and life in Shanghai. It denies the theory of stratum solidification, promotes the value of relying on and surpassing oneself, manifests the criteria of interpersonal communication: unity, mutual help, equality, respect and mutual improvement, and criticizes the social concept of preference of men to women with equality between the sexes. |