China infeliz é um livro publicado em Março deste ano que as recensões consideram uma continuação, actualizada, da obra de 1996 intitulada sugestivamente A China pode dizer não. Um dos autores, aliás, está presente nas duas obras. China Infeliz, ainda, não foi totalmente traduzido para inglês, apenas um capítulo é conhecido. Mas pelo debate que se pode ler aqui há uma polarização de opiniões que mostram duas correntes dentro da China actual.

“A book released earlier this year, called Unhappy China: The Great Time, Grand Vision and Our Challenges (中国不高兴：大时代，大目标及我们的内忧外患), offered a pointed nationalist critique of Western countries and their media. When the book was released in March, an article in the Oriental Morning Post (translated by the Zhongnanhai blog), said: “Unhappy China contains severe criticism of western countries, with the harshest words reserved for the United States. Zhang Xiaobo, who helped plan the book, said, ‘This is the revised and upgraded version of the book China Can Say No published in 1996. In the past 12 years, the situation inside and outside of China has changed dramatically, however, there is just one thing that hasn’t changed and never will change: that is we Chinese need to tell the western world we are not happy about what they did to us’.”

The book has been put on the shelves of Beijing bookstores. The book is authored by Song Xiaojun, Wang Xiaodong, Song Qiang, Huangjisong, and Liu Yang. One of the authors of this book, Song Qing, was also one of the authors of China Can Say No.

Unhappy China has 340 thousand words, and is published by Jiang Su Renmin Publishing House. Zhang Xiaopo said, “What happened to us Chinese in 2008 made Chinese people really angry, depressed and annoyed. We finally had our Olympics and we finally made it to the center of the world stage, but look what we got! Boycotts from the western world; treated by them like we are different kind of animal in the world.”

The full text of the book has not yet been translated into English, but Joseph McMullin has translated one chapter. Chapter Six, titled “It’s Up to the West to Face Why China is Unhappy,” takes on Westerners who support the Tibetan independence movement.”