This Generation
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This Generation

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eBook - ePub

This Generation

About this book

Selected from blog posts from 2006-present, This Generation tells the story of modern China from Han Han's unique perspective. Writing on topics as diverse as racing, prostitution, and how to be a patriot, Han Han has written a diary that is not only invaluable for the English-speaking world to understand our rising Eastern partner and rival, but which will long be remembered as a millennial time capsule. The core of this anthology is drawn from the collection Qingchun (Youth), published in Taipei in 2010, but it also contains a sprinkling of both older and more recent pieces. Presented in chronological order, the sequence opens with a handful of early posts; it excerpts Han Han's work more fully beginning in 2008, the year when he really hit his stride and his blog commanded a larger and larger audience in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. The anthology closes with Han Han's controversial cluster of essays posted in the final days of 2011.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781471114298

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. This generation
  8. Why do you cost more than me?
  9. Social regression, government extortion
  10. Regarding my debt to society
  11. How radical and ridiculous I am
  12. Traditional Virtues
  13. On flying the flag
  14. Let’s do away with student essays
  15. Insults to China
  16. Market day for patriots
  17. Q & A with Chinese nationalists
  18. Loving our country, saving our face
  19. Let’s not get in a rage so easily
  20. Expressions of personal taste strictly prohibited
  21. I’ll do whatever it takes to be an Olympics sponsor
  22. Faking it
  23. Sex + Soccer = Scandal?
  24. Oh, man–what do we do now?
  25. Clothes must be new; this is getting old
  26. We must boycott French products
  27. In praise of Feng Shunqiao
  28. Some points to note about whoring
  29. No fire without smoke: business as usual for China Central Television
  30. Like Jackie Chan, guessing the majesties’ wishes
  31. Further points to note about whoring
  32. The Founding of a Republic
  33. Report on preparations for the World Rally Championship in Australia
  34. November 21, 2009
  35. Try the pickles
  36. Just testing
  37. Required course for Chinese officials: Lesson One
  38. Are you Xiaoming?
  39. Han Feng is a fine cadre
  40. Where else could I find someone like you?
  41. Letters from strangers
  42. What is it you’re so afraid of?
  43. Yes, do come! Yes, do go!
  44. Children, you’re spoiling grandpa’s fun
  45. Talking freely, wine in hand
  46. Those scallions that just won’t wash clean
  47. Youth
  48. Orphan of Asia
  49. Protect the–[unacceptable input]
  50. Should we or shouldn’t we?
  51. Do we need the truth, or just the truth that fits our needs?
  52. On begging
  53. Prices are going to take a dive
  54. Huang Yibo is a fine cadre
  55. Three Gorges is a fine dam
  56. I have a good life in Shanghai
  57. The disconnected nation
  58. What do you do if it’s too downbeat?
  59. We already had our say on that
  60. Speaking of revolution
  61. Talking about democracy
  62. Pressing for freedom
  63. This last year of mine
  64. Index
  65. About the Author