# China Mountain Zhang

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- Book: [China Mountain Zhang](https://www.bookquiver.com/maureen-mchugh/china-mountain-zhang) ([China Mountain Zhang.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/maureen-mchugh/china-mountain-zhang.md))
- Authors: [Maureen McHugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/maureen-mchugh)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-462-0
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'I am Zhang, alone with my light, and in that light I think for a moment that I am free.' Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a new cultural imperialism, as wealthy urbanites flirt with interactive death in illegal speakeasies, and where Arctic research stations and communes on Mars are haunted by their own fragile dangers. A world of fear and hope, of global disaster and slow healing, where progress can only be found in the cracks of a crumbling hegemony. This is the world of Zhang. An anti-hero who's still finding his way, treading a path through a totalitarian order - a path that just might make a difference.