'One of China's greatest living novelists' Guardian Blending fact with fiction China Dream is
an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service Ma Daode a corrupt
and lecherous party official has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau charged
with promoting President Xi Jinping's China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is
about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every
citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy his
sanity begins to unravel. Plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution his nightmare
visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. This darkly comic
fable is a dystopian vision of repression and state-enforced amnesia set not in the future but
in China today. 'Excoriating...Not for nothing has Ma been called both the Orwell and
Solzhenitsyn of Chinese literature' A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Red Guards meet Kurt
Vonnegot sort of: powerful!' Margaret Atwood via Twitter
