"Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" â€•Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma

China Dream

"Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" â€•Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future.

This darkly comic fable exposes the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth. It is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state-imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

â€œ[M]ay be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Maâ€™s talent for probing the countryâ€™s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Partyâ€™s moral failings." â€•Mike Ives, The New York Times
Country USA
Brand Counterpoint
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Hardcover
Color Orange
ReleaseDate 2019-05-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781640092402

Country	USA
Brand	Counterpoint
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Orange
ReleaseDate	2019-05-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781640092402

China Dream

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