chinese dystopian novels

The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung

Summary: In near-future China, a month has gone missing from collective memory—and only a few people remember the truth.

Themes: Censorship, amnesia, propaganda, surveillance, political control

Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang

Summary: In a future Beijing where people live in physically separated time zones based on class, a waste worker risks everything to change his fate.

Themes: Social stratification, time, love, inequality, labor

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Summary: When Earth makes contact with a dying alien civilization, humanity is thrown into a cosmic struggle that begins in the wake of China's Cultural Revolution.

Themes: Existentialism, technology, environmental destruction, cosmic dystopia

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

Summary: In a future where Mars and Earth are ideologically divided, a group of young Martians visit Earth and face an identity crisis that could change both worlds.thrown into a cosmic struggle that begins in the wake of China's Cultural Revolution.

Themes: Identity, ideological conflict, cultural displacement, youth rebellion

The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan

Summary: In a polluted future China, migrant workers dismantle electronic waste while corporations and the state wage secret wars using biotech and AI.

Themes: Environmentalism, techno-dystopia, exploitation, class, posthumanism