The `Chinese Dream` turns into a zombie-like nightmare in Yan Lianke`s `The Day The Sun Died`
(LA Times Horse Racing)

President Xi Jinping´s slogan of national optimism, `The Chinese Dream,` may have been appropriated for his own advantage, but it seems to be the writers of his country who have been making the most of it. Novelists like Ma Jian (especially his recent `China Dream`) are producing sly and savage...