他的國

韩寒文集 #8

by Han Han, 韓寒

His country. Ever dreamed of being the king of your own kingdom when you were a kid? Han Han, the most popular blogger, rally car racer and now magazine publisher, tells a story about a person living in a fantasy of a kingdom. As Han Han himself was often directly criticizes the establishment, he was dubbed the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes." In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Genres: China, Fiction

253 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Chinese name: 韓寒

Han Han (born September 23, 1982) is a Chinese professional rally driver, best-selling author, singer, creator of Party, One (App magazine) and China's most popular blogger. He has published five novels to date, and is represented by the Hong Kong based Peony Literary Agency. He is also involved in music production. In May 2010, Han Han was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In September 2010, British magazine New Statesman listed Han Han at 48th place in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". In June 2010, Han Han was interviewed by CNN as China's rebel writer who has become the unofficial voice for his generation.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[William Shoemaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A modern-day Don Quixote set in a nondescript Chinese town, "His Country: A Song Belongs To Us" is a funny, absurd, romping look at the life of Zuo Xiaolong, a twenty-something, kind-hearted punk whose only possession is a motorcycle, and whose only cause is to start a choir in his demesne, a town called Tinglin, with the ultimate goal of having sex with Huangbao, the older, more stylish woman who ultimately rejects him for a rich factory owner in jail for poisoning the town's water supply. The novel is more wacky picaresque than youth romance: Zuo Xiaolong wanders, with almost no sense of reason or purpose, through and around Tinglin town, exposing the reader to an ever-so-slightly hyperbolic rendition of a Chinese town that is wholly Han Han's: early on in the book, Zuo Xiaolong meets Niba, an admiring middle school student who claims Zuo Xiaolong looks like Che Guevara and whose age Zuo Xiaolong doesn't even dare to ask; Zuo Xiaolong's motorcycle breaks down, so he and his new girlfriend simply sleep in the street. Later, Zuo Xiaolong finds a job as a product inspector at a thermometer factory, and in a bit of Han Han's classic satire, Zuo Xiaolong tests the thermometers by sticking them up his ass. "My workload is picking up again," Zuo Xiaolong tells his friend, a blind restaurant owner named Liu Bimang. "I can test sixteen mercury thermometers at a time now. If I were a woman I could probably do twenty." As always with Han Han's work, the bantering, farcical tone half-conceals serious outrage and critique of the enormous problems of life in China today: rampant pollution (halfway through the novel, a paper factory releases a chemical into the river that mutates the town's animal population, turning them many times their ordinary size; the town's residents rejoice at the higher prices their freakishly large livestock now command; but a few months later, everybody who ate the mutated animals goes blind); the hollow pabulum of the ruling political class and their cavalier attitudes (Tinglin Town's Party Secretary, after deciding to appropriate profits from the mutated animals to the state, is killed when a resident goes electrofishing and fries the politician on an evening swim); and the absurd lengths to which local governments go to conceal and distort information (after the mutation, a government propaganda truck's megaphone announces, "[This mutation] is considered an ordinary evolutionary event...It was caused by the planet’s greenhouse effect". Han Han's writing occasionally lapses from clever satire to mere slapstick, and he does not have much to say about the politics of modern China that has not been said before--at least not that wasn't whitewashed by the censors who undoubtedly had a heavy influence on this book. But as always, the story is conveyed with such humor and imagination, and the characters are portrayed with such a balance of trenchant criticism and honest affection, that it is easy to forgive Han Han nearly all of his flaws.

[Feng Pan · Rating 4 out of 5]

把那么多荒诞的现实写在同一个故事里，还给了个有希望的结局。真如他所说：就算你在大雾里开着摩托车飞驰找死，总有光芒将你引导到清澈的地方。

[Leah Yang · Rating 5 out of 5]

最喜欢的韩寒的书

[Lordoftaipo · Rating 5 out of 5]

像不像印象裡的韓寒作品，又是從村子開始，講述一個意氣風發的少年，如何懵懂地在村子裡、在情場裡、在公路上、在社會上跌跌撞撞。

真的就如銘在石刻上的印象，剛巧今天看韓寒新片《四海》，情節也是給我同一個印象。哦，還不只我發現有些情節是抽自這本書。

書剛讀到百來頁不到我就寫了一段感受，這麼看來，我是對受他的文句感觸深於情節的發酵，或者書中情節真的沒演上一半就可圈可點，或者都有點，又或者……我就一盲粉。

都說《四海》結構鬆散、女主出戲、剪接馬夫、情節牽強，我都有同感，可是一堆評論讓我有更深的體會。2022年不再需要2022年的韓寒了，他已經不出版。寫的情緒，愣是給新一代文青歸類為文青了——也就是說，十年前扣人心弦的想法，落伍了。

我還是會替今年的他辯護呀，還有去年和明年。假托他人手筆不可信；歸順可不是有了家庭與團隊了嗎；電影還是有4億票房啊？我護偶像心切，也許人人都會有捍衛自己信念的天生傾向，所以當一群人走到一起，就會衍生出「捍衛民族尊嚴」等精神喊話。

反正都叫到信念邊上了，我很欣賞他，就如我很不在乎那些劣評。那些劣評也不會搭理我，韓寒也不知道我是誰，差不多湊成盲粉的定義了。反正沒差，我又不是粉的郭敬明。

記不記得劉必芒在左小龍當不上合唱團指揮後說了甚麼？他說：「在時代裡，你只是個旁觀者。（第219頁）」即使你曾經在台上，帷幕總有一天會不帶一滴淚地落下。

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[汪先生 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2018-04-06 12:04:57
鑫弟赠书，14w字的短·长篇小说，他的国描绘的是中共大阴影下的小社会，小社会中的小人物们，像小尘埃，迷惘、孤独、无意识。对于小说来说，过分直白了，读完也不是很有感觉。

[Ray Mo · Rating 5 out of 5]

可惜80后只出了他一个。说明作者个体都是独一无二的。

[Nadire · Rating 3 out of 5]

将讽刺和荒唐发挥到了极致的一本书

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Flat. It wasn't until almost the end that Zuo Xiaolong, the main character, started coming to life for me, and I suspect that's due as much to some variation of Stockholm Syndrome is more to blame for that than Han Han's literary skill. Not a bad slice-of-life glimpse at small town modern China, but not enough for an entire novel. Probably should've been aggressively edited down to short story length, novella at most.

[Florence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Désappointée... J ai eu envie de l’abandonner 10 fois sans jamais y arriver. Je l ai finalement terminé mais j ne sais quoi en penser. Il y a de beaux passages de littérature ironique ou poétique mais aussi des chapitres qui m’ont paru pauvres et abscons ( surtout au début), je n’ai pas réussi à apprécier le ton humoristique et ironique du roman .

[Eva XU · Rating 4 out of 5]

两三年前读的，模模糊糊。