''Unhappy China: The Great Time, Grand Vision and Our Challenges'' () is a book written by Song Qiang, Huang Jisu, Song Xiaojun, Wang Xiaodong and Liu Yang and published in March 2009. The book, a follow-up to ''

China Can Say No ''China Can Say No'' () is a 1996 Chinese language non-fiction manifesto written and edited by Song Qiang, Zhang Zangzang (whose original name is Zhang Xiaobo), Qiao Bian, Tang Zhengyu, and Gu Qingsheng. It was published in China and strongly ...

'', encourages China to become a

hegemon Hegemony (, , ) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one State (polity), state over other states. In Ancient Greece (8th BC – AD 6th ), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of the ''hegemon'' city-state over oth ...

rather than getting cast aside. The book was a bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies in the month after publication.

Content

Generally, the book describes China as a country which should not be satisfied with a subsidiary position in the global order. ''Unhappy China'' depicts the country as manufacturing cheap products for the benefit of western countries which are ungrateful and which unfairly blame China for various global issues, including pollution and claims of neo-colonization in Africa.

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