Fiction Chronicle

By ALISON McCULLOCH

Published: February 17, 2012

Fragile China

By HOWARD W. FRENCH  

Wall Street Journal 2012-2-4

What becomes of a nation when it attains its long-harbored goal of surpassing the world's longtime economic leader?

Recent history offers two imperfect but instructive examples. In the early 20th century, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany interpreted its sprint past Britain as license to reshape the world in its image—by force.

Several decades later Japan began conquering the world with its goods, briefly surpassing the U.S., at le

thestar.com Canada

Jason Beerman

Chan Koonchung’s novel The Fat Years, newly translated into English, portrays a China of the very near future that can best be described as

The Daily Beast

This Week’s Hot Reads, January 2, 2012

Jan 3, 2012 7:22 PM EST

'The Fat Years': China's Brave New World

by Michael Schaub

National Public Radio, USA

January 12, 2012

Ian Johnson of the New York Times interviews Chan Koonchung and talks about The Fat Years

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/world/asia/30chan.html?_r=2&ref=global-home

The Saturday Profile

On the Party Circuit, and Upsetting the Party

July 29, 2011

Rahul Jacob, Financial Times' South China correspondent, reviews The Fat Years.

Jonathan Fenby reviews The Fat Years for The Observer UK

'Jonathan Fenby enjoys a dystopian protrait of the world's most deceitful superpower'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/24/fat-years-chan-koonchung

Jonathan Fenby is the author of the Penguin History of Modern China

China Heritage Quarterly special feature on Shengshi

June 2011

http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/editorial.php?issue=026

in this issue:

• The Children of Yan'an, by GRB
• Shengshi 盛世, Chinese Values and Han Yu 韓愈, by Timothy Cheek
• Fragile Prosperity, by Gloria Davies
• China's Prosperous Age: A Century in the Making, by William C. Kirby

BBC Radio World Service “The Strand”

interviewing Chan Koonchung about The Fat Years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hw2jc

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