The fat years chan koonchung pdf

It gives me great pleasure to bring this novel, the fat years, by chan koonchung, to your attention. Truth is not an option beijing, sometime in the near future. The clear trigger for the conceit of the fat years is. In prosperous china, ignorance is bliss the national. Chan koonchung born 1952 is a chinese sciencefiction writer who has previously lived in hong kong, taiwan, and the united states. Buy the fat years by chan koonchung, michael duke translator online at alibris.

Theres the heavy control of the media and the internet, and if someone disagrees with the government theres strict punishments. Chan koonchung, translated from the chinese by michael s. Download read the fat years 2012 by chan koonchung in. First published in traditional chinese versions in 2009 in both hong kong by oxford university press and also in taiwan by the rye field publishing company under the title prosperous age. Chan koonchung s novel the fat years has been banned in mainland china. Chinese must not forget the past, warns author of the fat years open this photo in gallery. The fat years is pitched somewhere between the wild comedy of yu hans brothers and the impassioned social realism of ma jians beijing coma. Chan koonchung s banned book fat years is a coruscating satire of a nearfuture vision of china in a golden age of ascendancy under socialism with chinese characteristics with the majority of the people opting for immediate prosperity and material gains in return to total obedience to the totalitarian rule of the communist party and its exercise of historical amnesia a. The fat years, by chan koonchung the globe and mail. Duke chan koonchungwho was raised in hong kong, has studied in boston, worked for many years as a successful journalisteditor, and now lives in beijingknows what westerners go for, so he has packaged a novel with all the necessary ingredients. In chan koonchungs political science fiction thriller, february 2011 goes missing from peoples memories in a newly preeminent china.

In chan koonchung s political science fiction thriller the fat years, the month of february 2011 has gone missing from peoples minds in china and its up to an assorted group of misfits to find. The fat years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state and sets in sharp relief the. The fat years is an interesting take on a nearfuture dystopia as so much of it appears to be heavily influenced by what we know of china today. Chan koonchung is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Political novels by wang lixiong and chan koonchung. The fat years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past in order to protect the future. The fat years npr coverage of the fat years by chan koonchung, translated by michael s. Chinese must not forget the past, warns author of the fat. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to care except for a small circle. Buy the fat years by koonchung, chan, duke, michael from amazons fiction books store.

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