China Tidal WaveGlobal Oriental, 17.04.2008 - 534 Seiten 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... |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 61 |
Chapter 3 | 105 |
Chapter 4 | 137 |
Chapter 5 | 182 |
Chapter 6 | 228 |
Chapter 7 | 268 |
Chapter 8 | 297 |
Chapter 9 | 317 |
Chapter 10 | 344 |
Chapter 11 | 392 |
Chapter 12 | 445 |
Chapter 13 | 479 |
Epilogue 14 | 526 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
already arms army asked Bai Ling base become Beijing Big Ox Central Committee Chairman Chen Pan China Chinese refugees Commander Bai dead Deputy Ding Da-hai dogs everything eyes face felt Feng’s fire flood frontier Fujian Fuzhou grain Guangdong hand head heard helicopter Huang Shi-ke hundred June Fourth Ke-ming killed knew leaders Li Ke-ming Long-kou looked Lu Hao Lu Hao-ran Mainland man’s Military Commission million Minister missiles mountains moved Multi-Level Election System Nanjing never nuclear winter once Ouyang Zhong-hua Pan’s Party perhaps police political provinces qigong radio Russian screen Secretary seemed Shen Shi Ge Shi Ge’s shouted shugua silent smile soldiers someone sound stopped submarine suddenly survival Taibaishan Taipei Taiwan There’s things thought took troops turned voice waiting Wang Feng wanted watch whole Xing Tuo-yu Xinjiang Yellow River young Zhangjiakou Zhongnanhai Zhou