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Chinese literature, particularly works produced in the twentieth century deals with the traumatic experiences of political violence, the physical manifestation of it and a nostalgic longing for its lost roots. Mo yan, the modern apostle of Chinese literary tradition, is obsessed with the ideology of politics. The manifestation of the political motif is recurrent in his novels. Mo, with a sense of commitment to national awareness, artistically responds to the socio-political situation existing in the country. The paper titled “The Subject in Crisis: A Reading of Political Corruption and Injustice in Mo Yan’s The Garlic Ballads” is a study on the trajectories of life of the Chinese farmers and their loss of subjectivity due to political corruption and violence.