Description
In this darkly comic and deeply unsettling novel, Ma Jian, an author whose work is banned in his native China, confronts the devastating legacy of totalitarianism. The story follows Ma Daode, newly appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with eradicating private aspirations and replacing them with President Xi Jinping's vision of national rejuvenation. As Ma Daode prepares to implement a plan for mass memory alteration, his own past, particularly the trauma of the Cultural Revolution, resurfaces, threatening to shatter his carefully constructed reality. Through this satirical and tragic narrative, Ma Jian exposes the moral bankruptcy of a regime that seeks to control memory, rewrite history, and blind its citizens with materialism and lies.
Available Editions
paperback
Counterpoint Press
Published Jan 1, 2020
192 pages
ISBN: 9781640093867
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for China Dream by Ma Jian.