Name: China Dream
ISBN: 9781784742492

Ma Jian

A fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history. In seven dream-like episodes, the author charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past

China Dream

jess

1984 but with harem progressive conservationalist (aka M*oist) who went insane after each mistress decides to expose their affair and decide to use dark nether world stuff (wolf tongue, corpse tears, etc) to handle the depression he got from the threats and essentially, to forget being a director of china dream bureau since he is consciously betraying the country in his own mind and thus afraid of the consequences of thinking itself. Confused? So am I.

Ruth Parker 

The premise of this is amazing but the translation is pants. Really disappointing. I wish I could read the original as I think it would work so much better in Chinese. There was a lot that was roughly translated, translated without context... it just didn’t work.

"Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people's private dreams with President Xi's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day. But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, things take an uneasy turn. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmares from the past threaten to undo his dream of a glorious future"--

China Dream

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