1996 summer, Beijing continued to have high temperature weather. Even hotter than the weather in Beijing is a book called "China Can Say No". This work, which was "shoddy" by several young artists, was regarded as the loudest voice in China that year. The cover of the first issue of New Weekly, which was founded that year, was a photo of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, with the title "China can say no, shaking the western world".

Song Qiang, Zhang Zang Zang, Qiao Bian, Gu Qingsheng ... These names are too strange to the public today, but this does not prevent them from creating a myth of 3 million copies that China can say no to at that time. "China can say no" has become the most talked about word in the streets.

This book criticizes the national nihilism that existed in 1980s, makes a rational reflection and evaluation on China's foreign policy in the post-globalization cold war era, and refutes the views of some domestic traitorous scholars and experts with a large number of reasons, opening a window for young people in China. From then on, China's nationalist trend of thought began to develop and progress, and was envied by some experts and scholars, who vilified and blackened this book in various ways, but these uglification and blackening could not conceal the value of this book.

After the book was published, there was an upsurge of "saying no" in the market. China can also say no, China can also say no, why China said no, and so on. Coming out one after another. But later, "China can say no" was once banned.

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1. About the author

Song Qiang is the first signer who can say no in China, but the planner of this book is Zhang Xiaobo, and Zhang Xiaobo, one of the authors, is the second signer. As a poet, Zhang Xiaobo explained why he first used a pseudonym. He said, "I think this book is different from my poems and novels." He is one of the famous "four waves" in publishing planning circle. The other "three waves" are An Boshun who planned to launch Shanghai Baby, Shen Haobo who planned to launch The Things in Zhu Xian, and Lu Jinbo who published Wang Shuo and Han Han's works.

Zhang Xiaobo is one of the lowest-key people. In recent years, Liu revealed a Dream of Red Mansions, and it is better to seek medical help than to seek self-help. He planned The Love of Hawthorn Tree, but he rarely gave interviews to the media. Zhang Xiaobo's explanation is, "I always think that this industry is risky, and our living condition is very fragile, so we dare not make a high profile."

2. Amazing prediction

The prophecy in the book has recently become the talk of netizens. "Within 15, there will be big problems in the western economy." This judgment must be recorded in the book. For this prediction, the author's analysis is: "The United States has a large fiscal deficit every year, which is made up by increasing taxes and borrowing. American companies are heavily in debt. Americans buy houses, cars and pay tuition fees by installments, and they still owe huge debts to banks ... Now the American government and Americans are "spending their children's money" and "eating for a lifetime". No matter what kind of economics is used for analysis, this situation will not last long. "

The book also says that "as long as we live through 10- 15, the world situation will change greatly in favor of our country"; We should make early financial preparations to prevent the impact of the' dollar collapse' and the' world financial crisis'. If we look at the current financial crisis sweeping the world, we will be surprised to find how accurate China's prediction of 12 years ago was. Zhang Xiaobo also insisted that the ideas in this book are not out of date.

Of course, the sales of this book have created a miracle, with a total sales of more than 3 million copies. Song Qiang said that they had seized 400,000 pirated copies of China Can Say No in Changsha. Zhang Xiaobo said, "It is so popular that we can't imagine it. When we signed books in a Xinhua Bookstore, all the books provided by Xinhua Bookstore were pirated books. Its circulation at that time was a huge number, and now it is staggering to think of it. "

How much wealth this book has brought to Zhang Xiaobo, no one can give an accurate figure, because this book has also sold its copyright overseas, and its sales in Japan alone exceeded 654.38 million+copies. They also launched a series of books on "strike while the iron is hot". A gossip is that after distributing these books, Zhang Xiaobo spent tens of millions of yuan to open a restaurant in Beijing.

3. Related book reviews

From China Can Say No to China in the Shadow of Globalization, it represents a trend of nationalism in China from quasi-official ideology (how to make new theories) to folk development, and it also shows that this trend is becoming more and more theoretical. This split is related to the emergence of social justice, which is actually the dissatisfaction and despair of the sleeveless China people among the radical intellectuals towards the official ambiguous attitude towards justice and the opportunistic attitude towards nationalism.

Nationalism's alienation of mainstream ideology, that is, political opportunism, is both active and passive, and it is mutual abandonment in mutual utilization and mutual blame in mutual disgust. In other words, in the late 1990s, China's nationalism took a more folk stance, and it was also "swallowing up", even gaining the masses by strengthening its own folk characteristics. As a result, the "new left" has become the "spiritual culture" of nationalism. So far, the violent preference of nationalism has only stayed at the level of language violence, and has not yet turned into real political violence. However, the logical consistency of the two is clear at a glance.

But in the book "China Can Say No", we can still find the writing style of opportunism. Perhaps, due to the dependence on tradition, China's writing career has always contained a kind of business spirit, which has gone through two stages of flattering officials and flattering them, and now she has entered a new era of flattering officials and flattering them, especially personal finance.

This kind of "progress" is low-cost, because in the "new era", people who manage words see things through the "third eye". But after all, three eyes are deformed, far from justice, which is a cultural disability caused by the lag of political reform. Exchanging money for cultural disability is a "creative transformation" of the victim's tradition.

Over the years, these people with cultural barriers or smart people, while polluting "postmodernism", started the dance of "post-Cultural Revolution". They are pretentious, serious and even arrogant. I am a well-known elite, so I am against all attempts to make China rich and strong.

References:? Baidu Encyclopedia: China can say no.