Yellow Peril
by WANG Lixiong
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Raging floods and a food crisis caused by overpopulation lead China to sign a controversial international economic cooperation agreement. The signing triggers political infighting and the eventual assassination of the Party secretary. The prosperous coastal regions take the opportunity to declare independence, leading to a civil war. Taiwan supports the southern rebel government in a bid for self-preservation, while Beijing orders a nuclear strike on Taipei. Taiwan’s forces take China’s nuclear bases, but the bomb that was intended for use in a revenge strike falls into foreign hands. Fearing random nuclear attacks from China, the UN led by the US and Russia initiate a series of surgical nuclear strikes that annihilate China’s nuclear capabilities. Yet this leads to a total collapse of China’s troubled society.
A farsighted crisis management expert trains civilians in secret, helping people escape from the wasteland that was China. Hungry Chinese migrate through Siberia, Europe, and the Americas, creating a wave of refugees that proves impossible to stop. While seeking asylum and assistance, they also work to develop faster-growing food as they attempt to survive in the post-disaster world.
China's dictators leverage distrust across the world into a large-scale international nuclear war. Half of the earth is covered in a thick layer of nuclear fallout, and a nuclear winter begins. With no crops growing, the world descends into famine and fear.
What kind of future is in store for our self-destructive species?
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About the author WANG Lixiong
Wang Lixiong was born in Shandong in 1953. He published the political thriller Yellow Peril, which shocked readers in China and abroad and attracted global media attention. The book was selected as one of Asia Weekly’s 100 top Chinese-language novels of the 20th century, showing its profound influence. Once called China’s most daring author by international media, his other works include The Destiny of Tibet (the most objective and fair treatment of Tibet written by a Han author); Dissolving Power: A Successive Multi-Level Electoral System (which Wang himself considers even more important than Yellow Peril and Sky Burial put together); Bottom-Up Democracy (Wang’s idealistic blueprint for China’s political future); My West Land; Your East Country (written after Wang was imprisoned in Xinjiang and lived among the Uyghurs himself); and Integrating Power and The People: A Self-Organizing Society of Layered Power Sharing (a solution to the corruption of communication structures by power, and further thought on the idea of a successive self-organized society that can avoid unrest).
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- Publisher Locus Publishing Company
- Orginal LanguageChinese complex
- ISBN/Identifier 9789862138502
- Publication Country or regionTaiwan
- FormatPaperback
- Pages984
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title黃禍(新修完整版)
- Original Language Authors王力雄
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions15x21 cm
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