Vera Peneda of the Global Times English edition interviewed Chan Koonchung and talked about "The Fat Years". The Globlal Times is an affiliate of the People's Daily of China.
Shiny, happy China
· Source: Global Times
· [10:27 March 24 2011]
By Vera Penêda
It's 2013 and China is happy. The country dodged the economic crisis s...
《華爾街日報》數碼網--在陳冠中那本廣受評論的反烏托邦小說《中國﹐2013》裏﹐中國為應對第二輪金融危機而通過了一部法律﹐強迫所有中國人花掉其儲蓄的四分之一﹐此舉釋放了中國國內市場的雷霆之力﹐把中國送上了全球經濟主導地位。http://hk.biz.yahoo.com/101006/364/3y5ra.html
WSJ Digital Network -- In a much-discussed new dystopian novel, “China 2013” by Chen Guanzhong, China responds to a second financial cr...
Foreign Policy's Xujun Eberlein reviews Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013 ("The Fat Years", "The Prosperous Time: China 2013")
by Chan Koonchung (Chen Guanzhong)
More Reviews on "The Fat Years" (Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013 )《盛世：中国，2013》新评论
1, Zhansui Yu in The China Beat: "Questioning the 'Chinese Model of Development' --
A Critical Reading of Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013"
http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=2423
2, Evan Osnos in THE NEW YORKER website: "The Age of Complacency?"
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2010/07/the-age-of-complacen...
《南方周末》年度「中国梦论坛：世纪开篇 -- 新世纪回顾与展望」发言
陈冠中
对二十一世纪头十年中国的回顾与展望，我想说三点：
1，中国已是列强之一
第一点想说的是，中国这个大国，这十年过来，已经是一个崛起的大国，俨然成为世界列强之一，虽然它不是世界单一霸权式的超级大国，却可以说，世界上除了美国这个超级大国以外，在这几年间中国已经是列强中数一数二的强国。
但是，二十一世纪的强国应该是怎么样的强国呢？列强...
Review of The Fat Years (Shengshi) by Linda Jaivin
http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/articles.php?searchterm=022_golden.inc&issue=022
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rural Society, Nongmin and Nongmingong
Notes for the Mutianyu Workshop on Intellectuals and Land (Educated Elites and Rural Society) in Contemporary China
Chan Koonchung （陳冠中）
6/2010
Intellectuals talk (well, it’s true they also think and write and maybe have a life). Paraphrasing Raymond Carver’s famous short story title “What We Talk About When W...
3
But nongmingong can no longer be nongmin as butterflies cannot be larvae again.
Objectively, agriculture – including subsistence farming, for-the-city produce farming and larger scale agribusiness for distant markets -- cannot make good use of so many rural laborers –the issue of so-called surplus labor power or rural under-employment.
Market economy entails the all-importance of househol...
Appendix 1: the hukou system
The hukou system went through several stages –
1949 to 1957, the more liberal stage, where a new 1954 Constitution guaranteed freedom of movement. But in practice through policies and regulations, restriction of movements already started.
1957-1978, stricter limitation on countryside-to-city mobility implemented. Different degrees of de-urbanization were also int...
《读书好》：香港的免费读书杂志 2009年12月
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从前我一直都说不准陈冠中的形象。最早他是全华文世界第一个写专书介绍新马克思主义文学理论的冷门作者，后来创办《号外》引领城市文化风潮，再后来他写电影剧本、管理唱片公司……你实在不知道该用哪一套习见的角色去定位这个人。就像我的旧上司梁浓刚，一方面研究拉康，另一方面在电视台任职高层。...
2013 Them and Us
Koon-chung Chan's "Shengshi"
by Paul Mooney
South China Morning Post
February 2., 2010
part 2
Chan speaks of a new political model emerging in
China, which he first noticed some time around
2008, and which he describes as "an authoritarian
government with popular support".
The Hong Kong writer says the party has won people
over by showing that it is a strong government
...2013 Them and Us
Koon-chung Chan's "Shengshi"
by Paul Mooney
South China Morning Post
February 7, 2010
Chan Koon-chung's new book is making waves among mainland intellectuals for its eerily realistic fictional account of a modern, prosperous China - and its veiled criticism of those who buy into it
It's the year 2013 and China is stronger and richer than ever before, while the rest of the wo...
Hong Kong Viscera
by Koon-Chung Chan
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, No.4, December 2007
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Close to half of the Hong Kong populace once lived in government-built and subsidized houses. Publicly funded medical premises not only had the best facilities and expertise but were also open to the public, with nominal charges. Elementary and secondary education was compulsory and free. Pub...
Hong Kong Viscera
by Koon-Chung Chan
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, No.4, December 2007
5
The (re-)localization of Hong Kong culture, starting from the 1960s but went on full speed in late 1970s, had been a process of incessant hybridization. Ironically, it was in the labyrinth of such hybrid cultural localization that a distinct identity of the locals had emerged.
Together with...
Hong Kong Viscera
by Koon-Chung Chan
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, No.4, December 2007
2
It was said pre-colonial Hong Kong was an island of barren rocks. That was a half-truth. There were pockets of natives living on boats or in various walled communities, some complete with their own sophisticated classical education institutions, long before there were colonialists. But the na...
Hong Kong Viscera
By Koon-Chung Chan
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, No.4, December 2007
1
‘Hong Kong is more Chinese than China’, an intellectual friend from mainland China insisted. He considered it his prized insight after being stationed in Hong Kong for more than 10 year and it is a complete reversal of his earlier preconception about the former British colony. Of course my ...
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从前我一直都说不准陈冠中的形象。最早他是全华文世界第一个写专书介绍新马克思主义文学理论的冷门作者，后来创办《号外》引领城市文化风潮，再后来他写电影剧本、管理唱片公司……你实在不知道该用哪一套习见的角色去定位这个人。就像我的旧上司梁浓刚，一方...
有社会责任的建筑师的六种面貌
Six Faces of a Socially Responible Architect
陈冠中
选译自2008年威尼斯建筑双年展香港馆展后香港闭幕论坛发言稿
1. 建筑师为城市主义者﹝urbanist﹞──超过一半的世界人口现居于城市区域。生活在人烟稠密的环境中已是大部份人的共同命运，但讽刺地，只有靠合理的高密度城市生活，人类才有希望保存农地与郊野。我希望本地建筑师们争取为所有社会阶层建立合适的高密度生活，提供良好公共...
﹝寄自北京﹞
人在北京，懷念香港什麼？懷念鄧小宇筆下的香港。
鄧小宇筆下的香港，包括九龍塘瑪利諾女書院及九龍區的各教會名校、中國學生周報、太子道咖啡屋、周啟邦夫婦、唐書璇唐書琨、郭志清郭志怡、Tina Viola文麗賢、孫寶玲白韻琴、薛芷倫榮文蔚、所有穿Kenzo/Yohji/Jil Sander的錢瑪莉們、上世紀五十、六十年代以百千部計算的港產粵語片，以及國泰電影懋業有限公司的所有國語片暨全體明星。誠然，在北京很難找人搭理這樣...
