Books by Chan Koonchung
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review 1: Chan Koonchung's banned book "Fat Years" is a coruscating satire of a near-future 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 ...
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review 1: Speculative fiction from mainland China! Or rather, a mystery set in a speculative fiction backdrop dressed up as a detailed critique of modern China. Or possibly vice versa. Anyway, the basics are this: in the near future, a global economic crisis even bigger than the 2008 meltd...
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review 1: 2.75 starsA bit of a weird story - first 60% reads like your average story and then it turns into a lesson of current/past/future Chinese policies (though how much is true and how much is fictionalized I would need to do much more research before I take anything at face value).Dy...