China Dream
A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as China s Solzhenitsyn.In seven dream like episodes, Ma Jian charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past From exile, Ma Jian shoots an arrow at President Xi Jinping s China Dream propaganda, creating a biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies Blending tragic and absurd reality with myth and fantasy, this dystopian novel is a portrait not of an imagined future, but of China today. Free Download [ China Dream ] by [ Ma Jian ] – kino-fada.fr Like the author notes in the preface, China Dream is written in a rage, and understandably so, as Xi Jinping s China, with its Chinese Dream, is beginning to resemble something potentially as dangerous as Mao s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s Unfortunately, for me, this rage does not quite turn into something poetic or dream like like the blurb suggests This is rather coarse in language and violent in content, withthan a few scenes of unrealistic action and dialogue This mi Like the author notes in the preface, China Dream is written in a rage, and understandably so, as Xi Jinping s China, with its Chinese Dream, is beginning to resemble something potentially as dangerous as Mao s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s Unfortunately, for me, this rage does not quite turn into something poetic or dream like like the blurb suggests This is rather coarse in language and violent in content, withthan ...This strange, hallucinatory novella deals with the terrible legacy of Mao s Cultural Revolution, through the eyes of a repellent bureaucrat named Ma Daode Despite his attempts to forget, he is haunted by events of the past that sabotage his current success The novella is episodic in structure and certain chapters worked much better for me than others I disliked the extended sequence in the brothel, which made a point about corruption but needn t have been so lengthy and repulsive Towards the This strange, hallucinatory novella deals with the terrible legacy of Mao s Cultural Revolution, through the eyes of a repellent bureaucrat named Ma Daode Despite his attempts to forget, he is haunted by events of the past that sabotage his current success The novella is episodic in structure and certain chapters worked much better for me than others I disliked the extended sequence in the brothel, which made a point about corruption but needn t have been so lengthy and repulsive Towards the end, though, the barriers between past and present seemed to collapse and events build to an almost apocalyptic battle between the living and the dead In this fashion, Ma Jian conveys the horrific violence of the Cultural Revolution, an extraordinary civil war in which family members turned o...This is a short novel with a lot to say about both contemporary China and Chinese history The main character, Ma Daode, is the director of the China Dream Bureau, and his plan is to create a chip that will replace people s private dreams with propaganda created by the government We quickly learn that one of the reasons Ma Daode is so passionate about this project is that he desperately wants freedom from his horrible memories of the Cultural Revolution, where he witnessed terrible violence As This is a short novel with a lot to say about both contemporary China and Chinese history The main character, Ma Daode, is the director of the China Dream Bureau, and his plan is to create a chip that will replace people s private dreams with propaganda created by the government We quickly learn that one of the reasons Ma Daode is so passionate about this project is that he desperately wants freedom from his horrible memor...Chinese dissident author Ma Jian s latest novel is a scathing satire panning Xi Jinping, but it will be tough for people living under Xi s regime to get a copy of the book Ma s work his past novels have been critical of the one child policy and the occupation of Tibet has been banned in China for three decades, and he lives in exile in London But if you re lucky enough to get your hands on China Dream, snag a copy and revel in that feeling of laughing at the absurdity so you don t cry The cen Chinese dissident author Ma Jian s latest novel is a scathing satire panning Xi Jinping, but it will be tough for people living under Xi s regime to get a copy of the book Ma s work his past novels have been critical of the one child policy and the occupation of Tibet has been banned in China for three decades, and he lives in exile in London But if you re lucky enough to get your hands on China Dr...Ma Jian is an excellent and very important writer, but this isn t his best work It s a slight, dreamlike narrative featuring corrupt official Ma Daode, head of the China Dream project Through the story, Ma has a number of flashbacks detailing the bloody events of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when he was a teenager As a satire on Chinese government policy this works effectively enough, whereas in terms of believability it s a bit thin Red Dust, Beijing Coma and The Dark Road are all Ma Jian is an excellent and very important writer, but this isn t his best work It s a slight, dreamlike narrative featuring corrupt official Ma Daode, head of the China Dream project Through the story, Ma has a number of flashbacks detailing the bloody events of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when he was a teenager As a satire on Chinese government policy this works effectively enough, whereas in terms of believability it s a ...Can I say that a book is beautifully written when everything in it is so catastrophically ugly, the main character and everyone else so despicable, that it made me sick to my stomach This novel literally triggered a series of sleepless nights Why Because every word of it seems so eerily plausible.Ma Jian is a supreme master satirist, a Chinese Jonathan Swift on steroids No, there is nothing amusing in his satire He takes the reality of contemporary China and exaggerates it just enough to Can I say that a book is beautifully written when everything in it is so catastrophically ugly, the main character and everyone else so despicable, that it made me sick to my stomach This novel literally triggered a series of sleepless nights Why Because every word of it seems so eerily plausible.Ma Jian is a supreme master satirist, a Chinese Jonathan Swift on steroids No, there is nothing amusing in his satire He takes the reality of contemporary China and exaggerates it just enough to open the lid for readers to see inside for what it really is.The b...This book, the English version, for me, as a native Chinese speaker, is quite disappointing The English translation isor less literal and only literal, meaning that it does not transcend the context of two very different and often opposite cultures The author, Ma, as I understood, wrote in Chinese and you can tell by reading the translation, where there are a lot of literal only translations of beautifying Chinese poems and idioms though I am not able to guess all Very often, this bad This book, the English version, for me, as a native Chinese speaker, is quite disappointing The English translation isor less literal and only literal, meaning that it does not transcend the context of two very different and often opposite cultures The author, Ma, as I understood, wrote in Chinese and you can tell by reading the translation, where there are a lot of literal only translations of beautifying Chinese poems and idioms though I am not able to guess all Very often, this bad translation stands in the way of understanding what the author is trying to convey It makes thing even harder since there is a not small amount of symbolism Many things in the Chinese culture have no counterpart in the British culture and a good translator would seek equals in meaning in the wider wes...This short, compulsive, dreamlike novel with linger in your mind long after you ve finished it The author, whose novels are banned in China, satirises the state s drive to wipe its dark past from the public memory, replacing it with a bright, anodyne narrative of rejuvenation, and progress towards the China Dream In 2012, President Xi reopened the lavishly refurbished National Museum of China on Tiananmen Square As he admired each new hall, followed by members of the politburo, not a single This short, compulsive, dreamlike novel with linger in your mind long after you ve finished it The author, whose novels are banned in China, satirises the state s drive to wipe its dark past from the public memory, replacing it with a bright, anodyne narrative of rejuvenation, and progress towards the China Dream In 2012, President Xi reopened the lavishly refurbished National Museum of China on Tiananmen Square As he admired each new hall, followed by members of the politburo, not a single exhibit would have troubled him about the communist hell of the country s recent past the millions that starved in Mao s disastrous Great Leap forward, the bloody mayhem of the Cultural Revolution, and the massacre of Tiananmen Square in 1989 Those events have been redacted and expunged from the national story They never happened So where does the truth exist Only in people s memories, which will soon fade and perish The new narrative ...To show how, even with modern technology, China faces a monumental challenge in efforts to control a 1.3 billion population, Ma Jian created seven short satires and a protagonist, Ma Daode, who is the director charged with developing a China Dream device that will erase memories and permit President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party to insert a new national vision of global domination and earworm slogans into the mind of every citizen The trouble is, this U.S educated director cannot even con To show how, even with modern technology, China faces a monumental challenge in efforts to control a 1.3 billion population, Ma Jian created seven short satires and a protagonist, Ma Daode, who is the director charged with developing a China Dream device that will erase memories and permit President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party to insert a new national vision of global domination and earworm slogans into the mind of every citizen The trouble is, this U.S educated director cannot even control his own memories, and he and his friends cannot live up to China s prohibitions against pornography, bribery, embezzlement, gambling, and abuse of power.The National Museum of ...This novel is an informative and somewhat entertaining satire It reveals the tremendous abuse that Communist China inflicts upon its citizens, but the language and the sexual innuendo are atrocious I might recommend the book for its history, but otherwise no In fact, I m afraid that I won t be able to forget some of the nasty things I ve read in this book The premise that the government can alter its citizens individual memories doesn t hold up an idea that we are all aware of Each person This novel is an informative and somewhat entertaining satire It reveals the tremendous abuse that Communist China inflicts upon its citizens, but the language and the sexual innuendo are atrocious I might recommend the book for its history, but otherwise no In fact, I m afraid that I won t be able to forget some of the nasty things I ve read in this book The premise that the government can alter its citizens individual memories doesn t hold up an idea that we are all aware of Each person s memories remain intact as long as we possess a spirit and a properly functioning brain However, collective memories can be delete...
- 20 June 2018 Ma Jian
- Hardcover
- 192 pages
- 178474249X
- Ma Jian
- China Dream