China Dream | 
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1. China dream is one of my favourite books,a harrowing description of the control exercised by the state. All Ma Jian's works are banned in China. That gorgeous cover is by another dissident, Ai Weiwei
2.How ironic that a book on censorship was ,in turn, banned!
3.I hated Lolita. Banned though? Slippery slope.
pickMa Jian weaves the history of the Cultural Revolution in China in with an intense character study of a high-up official in the communist party struggling with his former self and his painful memories. All brilliantly done. Don‘t skip the foreword. It‘s so powerful, and provides some background on the author who‘s books are banned in China.
“Once the Internet Monitoring Unit merges with our China Dream Bureau, the supervision of dreams will become integral to our daily work. We will record, classify, and control the dreams of every individual, and begin work on a neural implant, called the China Dream Device, which will replace everyone's private dreams with the collective China Dream.”
pickCHINA DREAM—This book is so good! It‘s a short novel about a man high in the Chinese governmental bureaucracy who is losing his mind because of memories of political violence from decades ago. It‘s harsh and infuriating devastating. Out in May.
panWanted to like this, the author has been through some rough times and I respect his point of view. I wanted more scifi and less details about his texting with his many mistresses and political intrigue that was not very intriguing.
