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The Fat Years Free FREE THE FAT YEARS PDF Chan Koonchung,Michael Duke | 320 pages | 02 Aug 2012 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780552776974 | English | London, United Kingdom The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung – review | Fiction | The Guardian Look Inside. Jan 10, Minutes Buy. An entire month has gone missing from Chinese records. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to The Fat Years except for a small circle of friends who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn—not only about their leaders, but also about their own people—stuns them to the core. The Fat Years is The Fat Years 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. Banned in China, The Fat Years controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. It is a message that will astound the world. A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex The Fat Years 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 to protect the future. He has published more than a dozen Chinese-language books and in… More about Chan Koonchung. 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The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung The novel is set in the near future ofwhere China has entered a "Golden Age of Ascendancy," while Western nations have stagnated after a second economic crisis in early Lao Chen, a Hong Kong expatriate and writer living in Beijingfinds himself enjoying the atmosphere of prosperity and contentment. Though suffering from writer's blockhe The Fat Years a modest living off renting apartments and attends monthly film screenings held at a restaurant owned by his friend Jian Lin and attended by an insomniac Politburo member named He Dongsheng. Lao gradually find himself pulled into events by his old friend Fang Caodi, who is frantically searching for the missing month of February with official records and public memory jumping from January to Marchand his former flame Wei The Fat Years known as "Little Xi"a former public security bureau lawyer who now acts as an Internet activist. Lao's feelings of contentment begin to vanish as he listens to Wei and Fang's partial The Fat Years of February and discovers that any available literature about the Cultural Revolution and political issues of the s including the Tiananmen Square protests of are either highly sanitized or unavailable. Lao and Fang eventually follow Wei to the township of Warm Springs, where she is helping a house church negotiate with the local government. After Lao confesses his love to Wei, they return to Beijing. After another film screening at Jian's restaurant, Lao is inadvertently pulled into a kidnapping of He The Fat Years by Fang, Wei, and Zhang Dou an aspiring guitarist who also recalls Februarywho are determined to understand the meaning of the missing month. After Dongsheng and the others agree their situation means they will " live or die together " with Dongsheng's disappearance automatically throwing The Fat Years onto Lao, but Dongsheng admitting his kidnapping would throw cause suspicion of revealing state secretsthey begin to discuss China's present The Fat Years. Dongsheng explains that, with growing challenges to the Communist Party's legitimacy and authority, the decision was made in the midst of the The Fat Years crisis to enact his "Action Plan for Ruling the Nation and Pacifying the World. The restoration of order and ensuing The Fat Years helped cement the necessity of the Communist Party in the public mind. Dongsheng further explains that the Chinese government was The Fat Years to save their economy with intrusive measures such as the conversion of large percentages of national bank savings accounts to expiring vouchers ; large-scale deregulation ; strengthening property rights ; crackdowns on corruptioncounterfeit consumer goodsand " misinformation ," and price controls citing those by Walther Rathenau in World War I Germany and in World War II America. This is coupled with a foreign The Fat Years calling for a "Chinese Monroe Doctrine ," with East Asia developing under Chinese direction; advocating non-interventionist economic cooperation and political stability in Africathe Middle Eastand Central Asia ; and even signing The Fat Years non-aggression pact with Japan. Backing up these challenges to American hegemony is a The Fat Years " first use " nuclear weapons policy. Dongsheng even reveals that the general The Fat Years of contentment is due to the controlled addition of the drug MDMA into the public's drinking water and bottled drinks and that the missing month of February is The Fat Years a case of social amnesia. After unsuccessfully arguing with Dongsheng over the benefits of liberal democracyFang, Zhang, Wei, and Lao release him and part ways in the early morning. The book has been banned in mainland China[2] in a article on the Huffington Post the author explained that "when my novel, 'The Fat Years,' was published in Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan insome publishers in the mainland China approached me. I told them to read the novel first and then we would talk. None of them came back. Well, one did come back, but for the rights to an earlier novel of mine - a novella about Hong Kong. So officially, 'The Fat Years' was not published in China. Koonchung does not speculate who specifically deleted his novel, but the title of the article 'Chinese Author: My Book Was Banned in My Home Country' strongly implicates the Chinese authorities. In July an English translation by Michael S. This blurb was later The Fat Years to a more direct description 'The Notorious Thriller They The Fat Years In China' in the January ebook version of the novel by the same publisher. Another ebook version of the novel also published in the same month by the Doubleday imprint Anchor Press uses the a blurb similar to the original, describing it as 'The Book No One in The Fat Years Dares to Publish', while a print version by the same imprint replaces the blurb with a quote from the New York Times review of the novel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jan Michalski Foundation. Retrieved September 14, Categories : novels Chinese science fiction novels science fiction novels Dystopian novels Fiction set in Novels set in China. 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