[科幻向] 中 国 （Chung Kuo）

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David Wingrove在1988-1999年写过一套架空科幻小说《Chung Kuo》（中国），共八卷。2011年起拆成20本再版，计划2015年出完。小说描述了一个由中国皇帝统治的地球，整座星球是一座多达三百层的巨大城市。统治地球并探索外星的这个中华帝国唯一的政治目标是维持稳定与治安。

Chung Kuo#1 The Middle Kingdom

The Year is 2190. China has once again become a  world unto itself and this time its only boundary  is space . . . The world is City Earth, ruled by the Seven, China's new kings. Beautiful, controlled,  sensual, this high-tech society is rushing toward  war between the forces of West and East, between  the rebels who hunger for change and the overlords  who demand stability, between the very powers of  darkness and light. It will be an era of violent  conflagration destined to expose the basest elements  of human nature . . . and the highest dreams. An  epic that draws us into an alternative world so  real, so complete that we become denizens of the new  Middle Kingdom, touched by longings we never  imagined. . . driven by forces as ancient as man's first  breath. Not since Asminov's  Foundation books and Herbert's Dune  has there been such a majestic and powerful  vision of a believable other world. . . seductive,  chilling, unforgettable!

在2190年，中国再一次成为世界上唯独他自己的地方，并且这次它的周边就是太空了...这个世界是个城市地球，被中国的7个新国王所管理。美丽，控制，感性，这个高科技的社会正在被中西方势力的战争，被渴望改变现状的反叛者和要求稳定的领主之间的斗争，被黑暗势力和正义力量之间的对抗所洗刷充斥。这个象征着暴露人类本性中最根本的要求并且也是最大梦想的时代正在徐徐升起，并且愈演愈烈...把我们带到另一个世界如此真实和完整以至于我们可以成为新中间王国居民的史诗，被我们从未想象过的渴望所包围，就像古代人类第一次呼吸一样的力量所驱使着。不是因为阿西莫夫的基础类书籍以及赫伯特的沙丘才成为一个可信世界中如此庞大宏伟的景象...极具魅力，冷漠，不能忘怀！

Chung Kuo#2 The Broken Wheel


Seven continents.  Seven Chinese kings.  A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society.  But the T'ang overlords no longer control all three hundred levels of City Earth.  Revolution is brewing.  As the all-powerful Seven plot the boldest imaginable counterstrike, a plan to control the minds of all humankind, Chung Kuo speeds toward cataclysm, and the final game between East and West, between the privileged Above and the downtrodden Below--a monumental confrontation with forty billion lives in the balance.  An epic that draws us into an alternative world so read that we become true denizens of the new Middle Kingdom, touched by tomorrow's longings . . . driven by forces as ancient as the first human breath.

七大州，七个新国王。一项仁慈的法律和一个稳定感性，并且高科技的社会。但是唐朝领主不在掌控所有300各个阶级的城市地穴。革命正在酝酿之中。由于最强大的7王密谋最具大胆想象的反击——一个可以控制人类心智的计划——“中&国”正在走向大变动，并且是东西方之间，特权的上层阶级和被蹂躏的下层阶级之间——400亿生命体的巨大对抗仍处在悬而未决的状态。

Chung Kuo#3 The White Moutain


A towering world-city covers almost every acre of  every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled  by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But  now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at  last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung  Kuo's few remaining open spaces; on the vast grain  farms, within the chilly Mars colony... and along  the proud spine of the mountain chains, where hardy  guerrillas scoff at the gunships of the T'ang. In  desperation, the Seven plot their final solution  in secret council, a gambit that could ensure  peace... at a terrible price.

一个高耸的世界，城市覆盖几乎各大洲的每一英亩。七大高科技封地，由集中一起的7大领主利用难以想象的力量来统治这一切。但现在的车轮坏了。这七大洲最后将被分割。武装叛乱已经在“中&国”仅存的开放空地爆发，辽阔的谷物农场，寒冷的火星殖民地之内......，沿着山脉庄严的屋脊，在那里顽强的游击队嘲笑唐朝的武装直升机。无奈之下，七大领主在秘密议会中策划了他们的最终解决方案，可以保证和平的策略——将付出一个非常可怕的代价。

Chung Kuo#4  The Stone Within


Wingrove's grandiose epic of high technology combined with ancient Chinese culture continues in this fourth Chung Kuo novel. The warning comes through a dying man's dreams: the prediction of a storm so deadly, it can destroy a world. And not one of the great ruling T'ang can predict its direction.

温格罗夫的具有高科技的宏伟史诗继续结合中国古代文化在这第四个本“中&国”小说中。这个警示是通过一个垂死的人的梦：一场非常致命的暴风雨即将来临，它可以摧毁一个世界。而伟大的唐朝统治者没有一人可以预测它的方向。

Chung Kuo#5   Beneath The Tree of Heaven


The spellbinding saga of the future continues in the year 2211. The Seven T'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is weakened by the birth of a special child, and the forces of rebellion and change are spreading from the mega-cities of Earth to a secretive, planet-wide conspiracy on Mars. For generations the T'ang have controlled with mind manipulation and teams of black-clad assassins. But the human urge for freedom cannot be stilled by murder or seduction. Now, as a mad, blood-thirsty ruler plots a coup from within the T'ang, Hans Ebert, his famous face obscured forever behind a mask, begins a new fight for power and love on the red soil of Mars. Revolution may finally free the long-shackled masses, or it may spread unimaginable destruction sufficient to level a world--and the hopes of all worlds to come. The Chung Kuo series brings future centuries to life, portraying men and women caught between great powers fighting for dominance...and yearning for ageless passions for all that life holds dear.

未来引人入胜的传奇继续在2211年发生。唐朝七大权利，太阳系的独裁统治，是通过一个特殊的孩子出生而减弱，叛乱和变革的力量是从地球的特大城市蔓延到火星上秘密进行的并且在行星范围内的阴谋。唐朝通过对心智的操纵和黑衣刺客已经统治了历代。但是人类对自由的渴望不能被谋杀或诱惑被平息。现在，作为一个疯狂，嗜血的统治者谋划在唐朝中的一次政变，汉斯·艾伯特，他出名的脸庞永远被面具所遮盖，开始对力量和火星上的红壤热爱的一个全新的战斗。革命可能最终解放​​长期束缚了群众，或者它可能难以想象地蔓延成足以夷平世界的破坏 - 并且所有世界的希望将会来临。“中&国”系列带来未来百年来生活，描绘男女陷入大国争夺主导权的斗争...并且向往为所有生命所珍视的无限激情。

Chung Kuo#6     White Moon, Red Dragon


Chung Kuo VI: White Moon, Red Dragon sees the reign of the Seven T'ang in a time of great, bloody upheaval. The rebel leader DeVore, thought dead by his enemies, has returned and is readying a terrifying flotilla to fight against the T'ang, the dictators of Earth. On Mars, another rebel, the long-exiled Hans Ebert, is formulating an audacious plan to bring a lost African tribe home again, and on Earth, the continental mega-cities of the T'ang begin to crumble as war ripples across the planet.

It is a time of endings and beginnings, when the last of the T'ang, Li Yuan, will make a terrifying alliance...when chaos will strike in the form of human-looking androids programmed to kill...and when Emily Ascher, a woman dedicated to liberty for the billions the T'ang have kept in chains, will see her vision blossom in blood red.

唐朝七大洲的统治巨大的，血腥动荡的时间。叛军领袖德沃尔，他的敌人以为他死了，又回归同时正在准备一支可怕的舰队，与唐朝对抗斗争，这个地球的独裁者。在火星上，另一反叛者，长期流亡的汉斯·艾伯特，正在制定一个大胆的计划，把失去的非洲部落重新回归，在地球上，作为整个星球的战争涟漪，唐朝大陆的大城市开始崩溃。

这是一个结束也是开始的时候，当最后的唐朝，李渊，将会有一个可怕的联盟者......当混沌在人类寻找编程机器人的形式中开始罢工......当艾米莉·阿舍尔，一个致力于解放唐朝已经圈禁数十亿人自由的女人，会看到她在血红中含苞待放。

Chung Kuo#7  Days of Bitter Strength


In the spring of 2232, hopes for a more humane world become manifest in the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine." There, Emily Ascher, once a freedom fighter, lives as Mama Em, mother to the orphans of a war-devastated land.

But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born: "Coffin Filler," a baby girl smothered and thrown away but not yet dead, and baby boy Josef, delivered into a hostile land, yet determined to fight for his life.  They are part of a new generation who will see more death than any who have gone before.

While peace seems to reign, the puppet master of an army of giant androids plans one final, absolute destruction.  And while the great T'ang, the dictators of Earth, are gone, the mega corporation GenSyn remains.  And soon its pleasure drug called "Golden Dreams" will make Chung Kuo a funeral
pyre for golden corpses--until the only escape lies in sending the survivors toward new stars.  .  .  or joining Emily Ascher in a battle for liberty and a new Earth.


在2232的春天，在“中国的莱茵河”红顶房子中，对变成更人道的世界的希望变得很明显。在那里，艾米莉·阿舍尔 ，曾经的自由战士，作为战争遗留下孤儿的母亲。

但对“中&国”的人民，两个孩子即将诞生： “棺材填料， ”虽然一名女婴窒息并扔掉，但是仍然没有夭折，男婴约瑟夫，即使被送到敌人的土地上，也决心要为自己的生命而战。他们将会比以往任何一代都能看到更多死亡的新生代的一部分。虽然和平似乎统治，巨型机器人军队的木偶大师计划最后一次，绝对的破坏。虽然伟大的唐朝，地球的独裁者，都走了，但大型企业GenSyn依然存在。很快称做“黄金梦想”的快乐药物会让“中&国”变成金色躯体的一场葬礼 - 直到仅送幸存者走向新恒星的解脱。 。 。或者像艾米丽·阿舍尔一样为自由和一个新的地球而战斗 。

Chung Kuo#8  The Marriage of the Living Dark


The Great Experiment has failed. The Ten Thousand Year Empire of the Han has lasted less than two centuries and now not a single  stack remains of the great city of ice that once covered the habitable earth. Europe is DeVore's, America is a brutal dictatorship, while the rest of the globe groans beneath the rule of callous warlords.

Li Yuan, once the most powerful man on earth, is now an exile in America. Banished to an endless round of tours and banquets, he unexpectedly finds a new role -- one that will once more tie him to the destiny of Chung Kuo.

And then there is Kim Ward, the Star-Seeker, the spider in the web. Will he leave Chung Kuo to its fate? Or will he turn his great fleet around and return to fight one final battle -- winner takes all?

伟大的试验已经失败。在汉朝万年帝国已经持续了不到两个世纪，现在不是一个伟大的冰城的单一堆栈，它曾经覆盖了可居住的地球。欧洲是德沃尔的，美国是一个残暴的独裁政权，而全球其他地区在无情军阀的统治之下呻吟。

李渊，曾经是地球上最有权势的人，现在是在美国的流亡者。放逐到一个无休止游玩和宴会的地方，并且他意外地发现一个新的角色 ——一个将再次牵绊“中&国”的命运。

再有就是金沃德，星空探索者，在网络蜘蛛。他能将“中&国”远离它的命运吗？或者他会不会把他的庞大舰队叫回并进行最后一战 —— 成王败寇？



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中国在别人眼中一直是未开化，封建，跪拜，独裁，皇帝，除此之外还能有些别的想法么？