This Generation
Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)
Published on 9. October 2012
288 pages
978-1-4516-6002-9 (ISBN)
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For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come?an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate the range of this rising literary star and get a fascinating trip through Chinese culture.
This Generation gathers his essays and blogs dating from 2006 to the present, telling the story of modern China through Han Han's unique perspective. Writing on topics as diverse as racing, relationships, the Beijing Olympics, and how to be a patriot, he offers a brief, funny, and illuminating trip through a complex nation that most Westerners view as marching in lockstep. As much a millennial time capsule as an entertaining and invaluable way for English readers to understand our rising Eastern partner and rival, This Generation introduces a dazzling talent to American shores.
This Generation gathers his essays and blogs dating from 2006 to the present, telling the story of modern China through Han Han's unique perspective. Writing on topics as diverse as racing, relationships, the Beijing Olympics, and how to be a patriot, he offers a brief, funny, and illuminating trip through a complex nation that most Westerners view as marching in lockstep. As much a millennial time capsule as an entertaining and invaluable way for English readers to understand our rising Eastern partner and rival, This Generation introduces a dazzling talent to American shores.
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Born in 1982 to middle class parents, Han Han shot to fame at the age of seventeen with the publication of his debut novel, Triple Door, a runaway bestseller with over two million copies in print. Over the next fifteen years, he cemented his reputation as a director, singer, racecar driver, Internet celebrity, and public intellectual. The Problem with Me is the third of his books to appear in English, after This Generation and 1988: I Want to Talk with the World. He lives in Shanghai.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: This generation
- Chapter 2: Why do you cost more than me?
- Chapter 3: Social regression, government extortion
- Chapter 4: Regarding my debt to society
- Chapter 5: How radical and ridiculous I am
- Chapter 6: Traditional Virtues
- Chapter 7: On flying the flag
- Chapter 8: Let's do away with student essays
- Chapter 9: Insults to China
- Chapter 10: Market day for patriots
- Chapter 11: Q & A with Chinese nationalists
- Chapter 12: Loving our country, saving our face
- Chapter 13: Let's not get in a rage so easily
- Chapter 14: Expressions of personal taste strictly prohibited
- Chapter 15: I'll do whatever it takes to be an Olympics sponsor
- Chapter 16: Faking it
- Chapter 17: Sex + Soccer = Scandal?
- Chapter 18: Oh, man-what do we do now?
- Chapter 19: Clothes must be new
- this is getting old
- Chapter 20: We must boycott French products
- Chapter 21: In praise of Feng Shunqiao
- Chapter 22: Some points to note about whoring
- Chapter 23: No fire without smoke: business as usual for China Central Television
- Chapter 24: Like Jackie Chan, guessing the majesties' wishes
- Chapter 25: Further points to note about whoring
- Chapter 26: The Founding of a Republic
- Chapter 27: Report on preparations for the World Rally Championship in Australia
- Chapter 28: November 21, 2009
- Chapter 29: Try the pickles
- Chapter 30: Just testing
- Chapter 31: Required course for Chinese officials: Lesson One
- Chapter 32: Are you Xiaoming?
- Chapter 33: Han Feng is a fine cadre
- Chapter 34: Where else could I find someone like you?
- Chapter 35: Letters from strangers
- Chapter 36: What is it you're so afraid of?
- Chapter 37: Yes, do come! Yes, do go!
- Chapter 38: Children, you're spoiling grandpa's fun
- Chapter 39: Talking freely, wine in hand
- Chapter 40: Those scallions that just won't wash clean
- Chapter 41: Youth
- Chapter 42: Orphan of Asia
- Chapter 43: Protect the-[unacceptable input]
- Chapter 44: Should we or shouldn't we?
- Chapter 45: Do we need the truth, or just the truth that fits our needs?
- Chapter 46: On begging
- Chapter 47: Prices are going to take a dive
- Chapter 48: Huang Yibo is a fine cadre
- Chapter 49: Three Gorges is a fine dam
- Chapter 50: I have a good life in Shanghai
- Chapter 51: The disconnected nation
- Chapter 52: What do you do if it's too downbeat?
- Chapter 53: We already had our say on that
- Chapter 54: Speaking of revolution
- Chapter 55: Talking about democracy
- Chapter 56: Pressing for freedom
- Chapter 57: This last year of mine
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright
