The author's other book, 盛世, is a political fable that has become the reality. I like it well enough even though there isn't much of plot. This book, 建豐二年:新中國烏有史, is an alternative history about what could happen if Chinese Communism Party lost to Chinese Nationalist Party in 1949. Again there is not much of plot, except the chapter about a mother and son. The author spends most of the pages describing the alternative political landscape. It reads like an alternative history instead of a fiction of alternative history. The Great Chinese Famine and The Culture Revolution never happened. How about that?
The book stopped at 1979, on the suspended note that this alternative China may or may not eventually become a modern democratic country.