1 | ''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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4 | !!This novel provides examples of: |
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6 | * ApocalypseHow: China is a regional Class 1 fairly early into the novel. [[spoiler: It's a global Class 1 - at best - by the end, with many parts of the world solidly in Class 2 territory]]. |
7 | * AuthorTract: Besides his environmentalism, the author clearly seems to be advocating for the Multi-Level Election System. |
8 | * 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... |
9 | %%* TheChessmaster: Wang Feng is a textbook example. |
10 | * 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. |
11 | * GreenAesop: Wang's environmentalist views are clear throughout the novel. |
12 | * 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. |
13 | * 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]]. |
14 | %%* ProfessionalKiller: The Major. |
15 | %%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Chen Pan]]. |
16 | * WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists. |
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