Dreamers and Nightmares: Political novels by Wang Lixiong and Chan Koonchung

http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/6636

By Chaohua Wang
Abstract: Wang Lixiong’s Yellow Peril(1991) represents the return of political fiction of the future not seen in China for decades. Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years (2009) brings the imagination to a full dystopian vision. Reading the two novels side by side, this paper argues that Chinese fiction of the future in the early 1990s responded to the country’s struggle for direction when the bloody crackdown of the Tiananmen protest wiped out collective idealism in society. In the twenty-first century, such fiction is written in response to China’s rapid rise as one of the world’s superpowers, bringing to domestic society a seemingly stabilised order that has deprived it of intellectual vision.

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Don't bother clicking through. The link contains no new information -- just the same abstract and a note that the full article will go online in . . . 2018.

Bruce, June 12, 2015, 12:31a.m.

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