The Olympic Dream: A Sci-Fi Short Story

The following “Sci-Fi” short story has been (re)posted in many Chinese online forums and blogs, originally from SCI-FI Great Wall blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. July is the hottest month of the year in Beijing. Old Zhao felt that his heart was as parched as the earth under th ...
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  1. Travellers’ Tales - The FEER Blog » Blog Archive » Sleep Through the Olympics? If Only… says:
    August 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM

    [...] Digital Times has a translation of a sci-fi story making the rounds on the Chinese Internet about a way to avoid all the mafan of the Olympics [...]

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  2. Beijingers and the Games (Guest) « China Comment says:
    August 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM

    [...] interesting dramatized story about local discontent with the Olympic games can be found in this “sci-fi” tale from China Digital Times, reposting from the SCI-FI Great Wall blog. The story discusses how poor [...]

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  3. Reasons to hate the Olympics, 4: Beijing 2008 | Fight the Landlord says:
    May 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    [...] linked before to the short story “The Olympic Dream“, in which the residents of Beijing ‘take their medicine’ to make the Games as [...]

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