China: Orwellian, Huxleyite, Kafkaesque, Vonnegutian…?
Paul French explores eponymous adjectives for China beyond the familiar Orwellian and Huxleyite....
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Chan Koonchung on Orwell, Huxley and China
At Five Books, The Fat Years author Chan Koonchung offers some recommended reading on utopias and dystopias, and discusses how they relate to modern-day China. Among his selections are George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Nightmare of the Pen
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on the situation for freedom of expression under the new administration of Xi Jinping. One lone pen wanders among a crowd of censors’...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Things We Believe In
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab continues his Orwellian theme to comment on prospects for political reform under President Xi Jinping. This cartoon is inspired by a People’s...
Hot Dystopic: Orwell and Huxley at the Shanghai World’s Fair
For the Los Angeles Times Review of Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reflects on analogies regularly employed between Orwell’s 1984 and political control in China, and asks whether the ideas of Aldous Huxley might make a more...
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