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* TheChessmaster: Wang Feng is a textbook example.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Fortunately, there is a key to the main ones at the front of the book (at least in the English edition).
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* ProfessionalKiller: The Major.
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''China Tidal Wave'' is a 1992 novel (the English translation appeared in 2008) by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese dissident and environmentalist. It is a [[NightmareFuel disturbingly plausible]] examination of what might happen if a country with over a billion people and hundreds of nuclear warheads were to become a failed state.
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''China Tidal Wave'' (original name 黃禍, lit. Yellow Peril) is a 1992 novel (the English translation appeared in 2008) by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese dissident and environmentalist. It is a [[NightmareFuel disturbingly plausible]] examination of what might happen if a country with over a billion people and hundreds of nuclear warheads were to become a failed state.
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* BannedInChina: The mere fact that the Tiananmen Square massacre is mentioned - repeatedly - would be enough. The fact that it ''portrays the collapse of the Communist government'' probably had something to do with it as well.
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* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way]].
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* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way]].way by the locals]].
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* DemocracyIsBad: Not really an example, but the proponents of the Multi-Level Election System argue that ''conventional'' representative democracy is indeed bad, partly because it is ill-equipped to deal with emergencies.
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* DemocracyIsBad: Not really an example, but the proponents of the Multi-Level Election System argue that ''conventional'' representative democracy is indeed bad, partly because it is ill-equipped to deal with emergencies. The Communists, of course, play this trope straight.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Democracy Front and the People's Front had presumably wishing for the fall of the Communist government for years. When it happens in a disorderly manner, though...
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Democracy Front and the People's Front had presumably been wishing for the fall of the Communist government for years. When it happens in a disorderly manner, though...
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* NightmareFuel: The initial crisis and its inexorable escalation are disturbingly plausible.
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* ApocalypseHow: China is a regional Class 1 fairly early into the novel. [[spoiler: It's a global Class 1 - at best - by the end]].
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* ApocalypseHow: China is a regional Class 1 fairly early into the novel. [[spoiler: It's a global Class 1 - at best - by the end]].end, with many parts of the world solidly in Class 2 territory]].
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* AuthorTract: Besides his environmentalism, the author clearly seems to be advocating for the Multi-Level Election System.
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* DemocracyIsBad: Not really an example, but the proponents of the Multi-Level Election System argue that ''conventional'' representative democracy is indeed bad, partly because it is ill-equipped to deal with emergencies.
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* ApocalypseHow: China is a regional Class 1 fairly early into the novel. [[spoiler: It's a global Class 1 - at best - by the end]].
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* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way.]]
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* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way.]]way]].
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* NightmareFuel: The plausibility of it all.
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* NightmareFuel: The plausibility of it all.initial crisis and its inexorable escalation are disturbingly plausible.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists.Communists.
* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way.]]
* YellowPeril: The literal translation of the Chinese title is this. [[spoiler: After hundreds of millions of Chinese flee their war-torn and famine-stricken country for Russia, Europe, and the Americas, they are seen this way.]]
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''China Tidal Wave'' is a 1992 novel (the English translation appeared in 2008) by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese dissident and environmentalist. It is a [[NightmareFuel disturbingly plausible]] examination of what might happen if a country with over a billion people and hundreds of nuclear warheads were to become a failed state.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* BannedInChina: The mere fact that the Tiananmen Square massacre is mentioned - repeatedly - would be enough. The fact that it ''portrays the collapse of the Communist government'' probably had something to do with it as well.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Democracy Front and the People's Front had presumably wishing for the fall of the Communist government for years. When it happens in a disorderly manner, though...
* TheChessmaster: Wang Feng is a textbook example.
* GreenAesop: Wang's environmentalist views are clear throughout the novel.
* TheGreatFlood: One of the main triggering events for the calamity that envelops China [[spoiler: and eventually the world]]. A ''hundred million people'' are made homeless by flooding on the Yellow River.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Fortunately, there is a key to the main ones at the front of the book (at least in the English edition).
* NightmareFuel: The plausibility of it all.
* NukeEm: Starts when the beleaguered mainland destroys Taipei. Taiwanese agents seize missile silos on the mainland, and then [[FromBadToWorse it just gets worse and worse after that]].
* ProfessionalKiller: The Major.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Chen Pan]].
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* BannedInChina: The mere fact that the Tiananmen Square massacre is mentioned - repeatedly - would be enough. The fact that it ''portrays the collapse of the Communist government'' probably had something to do with it as well.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Democracy Front and the People's Front had presumably wishing for the fall of the Communist government for years. When it happens in a disorderly manner, though...
* TheChessmaster: Wang Feng is a textbook example.
* GreenAesop: Wang's environmentalist views are clear throughout the novel.
* TheGreatFlood: One of the main triggering events for the calamity that envelops China [[spoiler: and eventually the world]]. A ''hundred million people'' are made homeless by flooding on the Yellow River.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Fortunately, there is a key to the main ones at the front of the book (at least in the English edition).
* NightmareFuel: The plausibility of it all.
* NukeEm: Starts when the beleaguered mainland destroys Taipei. Taiwanese agents seize missile silos on the mainland, and then [[FromBadToWorse it just gets worse and worse after that]].
* ProfessionalKiller: The Major.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Chen Pan]].
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists.
