The Problem with Me
And Other Essays About Making Trouble in China Today
Published on 2. August 2016
240 pages
978-1-4516-6005-0 (ISBN)
Description
?Funny and shrewd? (The New York Times Book Review) essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today.
Han Han ?owes equal debt to Jack Kerouac and Justin Timberlake? (The New Yorker). He's the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from corrupt politicians to ludicrous protesters and everything from Internet culture in a country that censors the Internet to the question of whether China is ready for democracy. ?Evocative and funny? and ?occasionally electrifying? (The Wall Street Journal), The Problem with Me provides ?an insider's look into Chinese culture and politics? (Publishers Weekly).
Han Han ?owes equal debt to Jack Kerouac and Justin Timberlake? (The New Yorker). He's the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from corrupt politicians to ludicrous protesters and everything from Internet culture in a country that censors the Internet to the question of whether China is ready for democracy. ?Evocative and funny? and ?occasionally electrifying? (The Wall Street Journal), The Problem with Me provides ?an insider's look into Chinese culture and politics? (Publishers Weekly).
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Person
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
- Translators' Introduction
- Foreword: Growing up is a Long Journey
- Growing Up
- I Grew Up with Blue Skies
- Soccer, Ah, Soccer
- Those People, Those Things
- The Problem with Teachers
- The Problem with Cadres
- The Problem with English
- In the Kart Every Day
- The Problem with Me
- In the Kart Every Day
- My First Time in Shanghai
- SARS and a Rally Race in Longyou
- Actually, I'm a Writer
- Literature and the Era of Microblogs
- Why Are There Still Modern Poets?
- Poets Are Desperately Not Writing Poetry
- Modern Poets Get Organized
- Wang Shuo
- There Hasn't Been Any Renaissance
- There Will Always Be a Power
- Pennies for the Writers
- On Weibo and WeChat
- For Every Self
- I Still Want to Be a Stinking Public Intellectual
- I Still Want to Be a Stinking Public Intellectual
- Officials and Me
- An American Soap Opera in Chongqing
- Some People Should Get the Vote First
- A Rumor That's Lasted for Many Years
- Slaughter the Public
- Remembering a Time When I Was Powerless
- Let Me Take You for a U-turn on Chang'an Avenue
- Chess Pieces That Deserted the Board
- A VIP's Trip to Thailand
- The Pacific Wind
- Life as I Know It
- Life as I Know It
- Fatherhood
- I Can't and I Don't
- Children's Day
- The New Masters Have Arrived
- Chunping, I Did It
- Remembering Xu Lang
- School Reunions
- Afterword: This Generation (2012 Edition)
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright
