黃禍

by 王力雄

There is great social tension in the aftermath of ‘Tiananmen Square’, uncertainty about political and economic policy and the constant burden of over-population. Serious flooding of the Yellow River adds more than a hundred million to the ‘floating population’ of destitute and semi-destitute peasant refugees. In addition, the rapid development of the market economy, and other reforms, have led to the prosperity of some but not in all provinces. The bastion of conservative opposition to reform remains in the Army, especially among the old revolutionaries. An ambitious Lieutenant-General (Wang Feng), backed by the highest-ranking officer of the Army, now retired, who still wields immense, informal power, arranges for the assassination of the reformist Secretary General of the Communist Party who is also President of China. Seven of the rich southern provinces subsequently declare independence because the anti-reform, anti-commercial new government threatens their prosperity… Taiwan sees this as an opportunity to ‘re-conquer the mainland’, but Wang Feng orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Taipei... Members of the Taiwanese army then capture a nuclear missile base in south China and fire a missile at Beijing, which lands in Russia by mistake…

Genres: Fiction, China, Politics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[zoe · Rating 2 out of 5]

中国男文人，不论政治立场在哪边，一写女性角色就臭不可闻。看着看着让人产生“这人是一辈子没见过真实女性吗“的疑问

[Riovogan · Rating 4 out of 5]

读完黄祸的第一感觉犹如烂柯山黄粱一梦,眼前的现实世界一刹那觉得犹如虚幻.诚然王力雄如同其他写同类「政治寓言」的中国知识分子一样,在兜售自己似是而非的政治理论时,毫不吝惜笔墨,对角色塑造的损害则丝毫不顾.本书中大大吹捧的所谓「逐级递选制」在作者自己营造的核战争和废土世界中仿佛是个大笑话.共产党固然凶残,却非无稽.其高层重在攫取权力和利益.所以引民运分子内斗是可能的,南北内战也有苗头,打核大战却不太可能.更别提有组织的滚滚四散黄潮——自发的的确可能,犹如今日欧洲之中东难民.另外这些80年代的知识分子似乎都喜欢塑造一个「圣母」形象——本书里是陈盼,她的行为在日常世界算得上合理,可在这个冬夏日夜倒转的世界,却有种说不出来的讨厌.总之,本书可读性不错,最差还够得上看一场名为「中国辐射(Fallout)时代」的怪奇「荒诞剧」.另外,我并不觉得这书够得上「反华」二字.

[Mingke · Rating 3 out of 5]

A straight man cancer (male chauvinist)’ political fantasy. Like a combination of The Three-Body Problem and The Walking Dead.

[Charles1376 · Rating 4 out of 5]

大洪水文学

[Jacky Zhu · Rating 4 out of 5]

看了作者简介，感觉自己的人生简直太苍白了。
逐级递选笔墨过多，口水话重复。
暗杀情节不够真实。三峡警察李克明变为福建自治军指挥不合理。
写联合国无能的部分非常形象，准确。
性描写有点油腻男的恶趣味，显得对女性不尊重。

[榆 · Rating 3 out of 5]

4.10–6.16.2023
看的过程中最让人不舒服的就是对女性的描写，超越刘慈欣。无关女权，只要有一点性别意识的读者都很煎熬。其实把里面所有的女性都删掉也没太大影响，不会写没必要硬写。所有的女性都是非常软弱的，遇到危险只能想男人。印象比较深的是，农村女人桂枝的死亡，知道他想借肉体描写来表达悲壮，但很不幸没做到，让莫言来写绝对会不一样。
没必要把苏联改写成俄罗斯。苏联解体，俄罗斯并没有和美国分庭抗礼的实力吧。作者既然从六四事件之后开始写，当成平行世界就行，不如就接着把苏联写下去，后面的冷战思维也刚好是美苏之间才会产生的。
看得最紧张的部分是北京向台北进行核打击，还有剩下的那艘核潜艇对美国发射20枚核导弹。石戈为了把北京将对台北进行核打击的消息传递出去，从中南海跑到澳大利亚使馆，途中被汽车和飞机追，惊心动魄，好莱坞大片的感觉，但是石戈不是特工也不是成龙那样的功夫巨星，中年胖子能做到这些写得还是挺夸张的。
另外作者写了日本、俄罗斯、台湾，为什么把朝韩漏掉了，东亚剧变时朝鲜半岛怎么可能风平浪静。
关于强奸的情节（人犬大战前后？），要强调人性和兽性的区别，「人吃人」远比「人奸人」更具冲击感，有了前者就完全不需要再多此一举，后者代表了作者的局限性。
看完才知道这是精简版，不过很庆幸，其中「逐级递选制」的章节真的很乏味。说实话虽然对内容不是很满意，但中文世界能读到这样的题材算是一种全新的体验。

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I was watching House of Cards, I wonder if there any political thriller about China. There it is~ Of course it's not famous in mainland China. Internal party official struggle, numerous mentioning and discussing about historical taboos about the party and fantastic plan of a democratic China... Only flaw is the ending, a bit too normal. I think this is one and only type of book~

[P G · Rating 5 out of 5]

如果把它作為六四相關的政治小說，太看低此書了。作者對中國問題有很深入的觀察，對採用何種體制有過深入思考。與其說是預言（當然作者本來就不同意這種定義，其認為只算寓言），不如說是一面鏡子，結合現實與問題的演繹。

[Chris Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although an interesting prediction of what the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party would look like in the future, some of them are a bit outdated. Tried to be like 1984 but lacks the depth.

[Kevin · Rating 1 out of 5]

所谓一部小说最起码应该有一定的文学色彩，这恰恰是这本书没有的。基本上，王力雄的写作能力还不如现在的网文作者！看这种小说不如去看法轮功的报纸！

[Abouttime · Rating 5 out of 5]

好书，youtube在线阅读链接：
https://www.youtube.com/c/jidaibooks