Liu CI Xin set me on wanting to read Chinese Sci-fi The more I the better. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future. ―Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky “The pinnacle of near-future science fiction.” ―Cixin Liu, Hugo Award-winning author of The Three Body Problem"Chen weaves a stunning tale of greed and deftly exposes all the hidden contours of the human heart." Some romance – Chinese style - interwoven lighten up the plot. In 1987 and 1988 a large amount of medical waste and sewage trash washed on the New Jersey beaches in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, covering an area of 50 miles. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Please try again. Both of us thought the original concept was a good one, but the execution was lacking. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. The genre has earned acclaim both for its imaginative nature and as a lens into contemporary China; Waste Tide succeeds on both fronts. What looks like normal e-waste, is actually infected by a virus born out of one of the darkest episodes of WWII, Project Waste Tide. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands of people like Mimi toil day and night, hoping that one day they too will get to enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three scrap families who have ruled the isle for generations. – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas. Tor Books; Translation edition (April 30, 2019). The time is in the immediate future. I enjoyed Waste Tide’s cultural, economic and political insights, and its mysticism. The Tides Waterfront has rental units ranging from 493-1055 sq ft starting at $670. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELAward-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. I think the setting for the story is a great idea and I'm sure it'd make a good film. In the Guiyu island, the large electronic recycle industries are in full control of local lineage associations. The characters, the story line development and world as depicted, all highly engrossing. You’ll really like this one, I guarantee it. "A chilling sci-fi novel about class war and trash in near-future China, and the people the world’s economy leaves behind... Pressingly relevant." I'm into SCI-FI Currently Chinese ones. Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2019. The genre has earned acclaim both for its imaginative nature and as a lens into contemporary … Find all the books, read about the author, and more. That's the first half of the book. ―Maggie Shen King, author of An Excess Male“Filled with wonderful invention, compelling characters and a whirlpool of story, Waste Tide is an urgently-needed, thought-provoking wild ride of a novel. For me the whole story was too long and rather written for a nonwestern audience. During the years of 1987 and 1988, a significant amount of syringes, other medical waste and raw garbage washed along the shores of Long Island, New York City and Jersey Shore. runoff, spills, waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage areas. In the real world, Guiyu is a town in the Shantou prefecture of Guangdong province in China. Please try again. The author’s prose has a wonderful sense of exuberance. There’s some good stuff in here, but the treatment of female characters makes it impossible for me to enjoy the novel as a whole. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The Torn Generation: Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition. Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end.Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. Ken Liu's English translation of The Waste Tide has been acquired by Tor, the American fantasy and science fiction press that published Liu's award-winning translation of The Three-Body Problem (Liu 2016). Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. [3], "The Waste Tide - All China Women's Federation", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Waste_Tide&oldid=989827357, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 November 2020, at 07:34. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Please try your request again later. Chen’s novel, ‘The Waste Tide,’ can either be read as a scathing critique of the government’s failure to deal with ecological destruction or be interpreted as a manifesto against global consumerism. The Plastic Tide NPR explores one of the most important issues of our time: plastic waste in our environment. Talking about the background of writing the novel, Chen said: ''Choosing my hometown as background to write the story, is related to my thinking of China. I enjoyed being reminded that it is still work for many in this near-future techno thriller. Although solid waste management is an essential service to the community, sometimes it produces an unpleasant side effect – smelly odors. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. It’s set in a world of advanced elective prostheses and android dogs and a whole economy of microchip recycling. Into this conglomerate of business interests, clan loyalty, ancient, spiritual believes two American businessmen enter with a proposal for a green recycling investment that would make more money for the clans and clean up the polluted silicon island. She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to … Taking place on a grimy coastal island called Silicon Isle, off the southern coast of China, known to the world as the recycling center for … 武汉市 : 长江文艺出版社, 2013. Waste Tide is exactly the kind of science fiction I enjoy most. Edition Di 1 ban. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners. We talk a lot about the struggles for organizations who generate medical waste on a daily basis, and it’s easy to forget the why behind it all. There’s some good stuff in here, but the treatment of female characters makes it impossible for me to enjoy the novel as a whole. To depict the pain of changing China, is just because I desire for she getting better gradually. The Plastic Tide is growing by 8 million metric tonnes a year. It is the debut novel by the writer. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. As quickly as the tides carry the plastic waste far out into the Atlantic Oceans, waves wash up more upon the sand, in an unrelenting loop. Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2020, Waste Tide (Kindle Edition) by Chen Qiufan, Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2020. My 59 year old son in one state and me in a different state, tried reading this book at the same time so we could talk about it as we read it. To Silicon Isle, a vast waste dump where electronic devices and components are manually recycled, desperate workers flood in from all over China despite the extreme toxic hazards and attacks by fanatical environmentalists. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. Though some residents got rich by electronic recycling, pollution became serious in the town. Good setting though, and the atmosphere is on point. Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." A fairly nonsensical book about psychic powers gained through a virus. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. The Waste Tide. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. The story is set in and around China’s Silicon Isle, the end of the line for the world’s electronic waste and the center of a booming economy fueled by recycling. Chen Qiufan. They'll make suggestions on where Tide Cleaners can deliver the hanging clothes. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A class war ignites, one that draws in environmental extremists and waste workers, and involves family feuds and darker conspiracies. Guiyu is one of several places in the developing world where plastic and electronic waste generated in the West was shipped in order to save labour costs and bypass stricter environmental regulations in their own countries. 荒潮 = The waste tide / 陈楸帆著. Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2019. Ruthless local clans enforce long hours and wretched wages. This is an incredible piece of work, in turn dystopian, utopian and completely believable. The area, where three clans control the waste recycling by migrants and slave workers is a somehow restricted area with total control of the government and the regional clan heads. Chen Qiufan’s 陈楸帆 novel Waste Tide (荒潮), expertly translated by Ken Liu, is a significant contribution to the growing genre of Chinese science fiction. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, No Import Fees Deposit & $7.98 Shipping to Hong Kong. I think I fell in love with Mimi, too. I made it to page 135 and he made it to page 137. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! He grew up near Guiyu, China, home to the world's largest e-waste recycling centre, an area the UN called an 'environmental calamity' and his experiences there inspired The Waste Tide. Peeling back another layer, exporting obsolete electronics often leads to data security problems when sensitive information is stolen from computers shipped abroad. This is the first book by a Chinese author that I've read, and it was really eye opening! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2021. You can schedule your first pickup on our website (TideDryCleanersTX.com) or call (1-833-843-3253). 3 Favorites [+] Latest Posts. Unable to add item to List. This is the futuristic vision that everybody needs right now." Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Three-Body Problem Boxed Set: (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End) (The Three-Body Problem Series), The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel (The Three-Body Problem Series, 4). The book is just too confusing and at times a very uncomfortable read. Originally published in Beijing in 2013 as The Waste Tide, it takes place almost entirely on a grim coastal island called Silicon Isle, which is essentially one giant landfill for electronic waste, where local gangs and interna­tional corporations brutally exploit the thousands of subsistence-level workers they contemptuously call “waste people.” The crisis along the shores of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will forever be remembered as The Syringe Tide. In Chinese science fiction author Chen Qiufan’s debut novel Waste Tide, a young woman finds herself transformed and stuck in the midst of a vicious … Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. Waste Tide is a lengthy thriller on clan rivalry in waste recycling on an island at a South-Chinese costal area in the vicinity of Hong Kong. Please try again. The details are fascinating, including some powerful future tech, and we are introduced to several interesting characters, such as Mimi and Kaizong, who eventually fall in love. The story takes place in the imaginary ''Silicon Isle''. The Syringe Tide. The setting for Waste Tide is based on a real location and real environmental issues near my own hometown, Shantou. American investors, hungry for profit. Waste Tide is science fiction of the very near future, grappling with the problems of globalization and environmental degradation that are already upon us. A science fiction novel set in a Chinese ecological dystopia. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. If nothing is done, it is estimated that this figure will rise to 80 million metric tonnes a year by 2025. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books). Thu May 15, 2014 10:00am. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2020. In a fateful accident, Mimi is infected by the virus and becomes the host for an omniscient consciousness, hell-bent on righting all the wrongs that have been done to her people. ―The Verge. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Waste Tide is the debut novel by Chen Qiufan, which was published in China back in 2013 and translated into English by Ken Liu a handful of years later. Our transfer stations are cleared of waste every day, so odor complaints for those facilities are uncommon. The people who live there process the waste, and there are several clans who jockey for power on the island. The Waste Tide, Chen's first novel, won the 2013 Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) award. It consists of all sizes of plastics, with larger pieces taking at least 400 years to … See all available apartments for rent at The Tides Waterfront in Fort Worth, TX. Historically waste sorting has included an umbrella of professions, from mudlarks who would comb the banks of the Thames for findables, to nightwaste collectors. ―The Washington Post "Something startlingly new... an action-packed story that's full of moral complexity. Name and Location Other Information; KEVIN'S ELECTRICAL SERVICE 4602 EBB TIDE DR ROWLETT TX 75088-8954 County: DALLAS Classified Segment – Refers to a water body that is listed and described in Appendix A or ... which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide; (b) all interstate waters, including It really made me re-evaluate how I generate e-waste, and it was illuminating to see the world through the author's eyes. His concept of bandwidth restriction as punishment was particularly revelatory. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. ―Kirkus (starred review)"Already an award winner in China, this book is likely to draw comparisons to Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and is a provocative addition to the growing corpus of Chinese speculative fiction and near-future and realist sf as a whole." Mimi is a "waste girl". It is the debut novel by the writer. ―Library Journal “A complex and provocative exploration of the interactions among social class, corporate ambition, cultural identity, environmentalism, and human potential, with enough buzzy ideas to power a couple of novels, and enough violent melodrama to keep the reader plummeting along.” ―Gary K. Wolfe for Locus "A sci-fi blockbuster with mob bosses, robots and a powerful virus...downright prescient" ―Shelf Awareness . A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Physical description 259 p. ; 24 cm. ''[1], The Waste Tide depicts a dystopian China in the post-2020 era. I got this idea in 2011, when I travelled back to Shantou to meet my childhood friends, one of whom told me about a place, Guiyu, which later became the prototype for … The area, where three clans control the waste recycling by migrants and slave workers is a somehow restricted area with total control of the government and the regional clan heads. Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks"Thrilling...fresh." Atmosphere is really all this book has going for it, though. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. slow, then rushed with an unbelievable premise, Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019. The Waste Tide is set in the fictional Silicon Isle which is closely modeled on the town of Guiyu in the coastal province of Guangdong in China. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. The Syringe Tide. I couldn’t put it down.” – Lavie Tidhar, author of Central Station"Viscerally gripping action... sheer excellence." And it is Shantou where Chen Qiufan was born and grew up before he entered Peking University. The medical waste included mostly syringes and therefore the event became known as the Syringe Tide. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELAward-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. Something went wrong. The laborers who undertake dangerous work for the profit of the Chinese and foreign businessmen who employ them are depicted not as humans, but cyborgs whose bodies and minds have been altered permanently through bio-engineering.[2]. The time is in the immediate future. This tide does not recede. A real waste of time and money for us. Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2020. The area, where three clans control the waste recycling by migrants and slave workers is a somehow restricted area with total control of the government and the regional clan heads. There are many Chinese writers pursuing this genre. It all changes when a ship bearing a dangerous cargo arrives at Silicon Isle. I have recommended this book to everyone I know! Series Zui shi wen hua. Waste Tide is a lengthy thriller on clan rivalry in waste recycling on an island at a South-Chinese costal area in the vicinity of Hong Kong. The Waste Tide is also peppered with an alternate reality that is not so difficult to imagine. A number of Waste Tide’s choices don’t sit right with me. One of these items ships sooner than the other. When our landfill in Melissa opened in 2004, there were very few residents near it. Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. There was a problem loading your book clubs. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Plastic Pathways to Oceans . The Wast e Tide is set in Silicon Isle, a vast waste dump where electronic devices and components, which is based somewhat in reality - Chen’s hometown is near one of the world’s largest e-waste recycling centre. Chen Qiufan’s 陈楸帆 novel Waste Tide (荒潮), expertly translated by Ken Liu, is a significant contribution to the growing genre of Chinese science fiction. I enjoyed reading this and would definitely give other books by this author a go. She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics - from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs ― are sent to be recycled. The story takes place in the near future on a Chinese island that has become the destination for tech waste from around the world. Some technological gizmos like “viral batteries” and advanced robotics that are broken down and “recycled” on the island are interesting but do not make a good thriller as such. Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2019. The town held the record for being the largest E-waste site up to 2013. It takes a real world issue (massive amounts of e-waste dumped in China) and smashes it with a dose of fantasy. Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019. The time is in the immediate future. She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs ― are sent to be recycled. The Chinese word ''硅屿'' for Silicon Isle shares a similar pronunciation with Guiyu (Chinese: 贵屿) in Mandarin. Likable characters, easy to follow story, multiple twists I never saw coming. Syringe Tide. Waste Tide is a lengthy thriller on clan rivalry in waste recycling on an island at a South-Chinese costal area in the vicinity of Hong Kong. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. The Waste Tide is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan. They're the lifeblood of the island’s economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Imprint Wuhan Shi : Chang Jiang wen yi chu ban she, 2013. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. THE E-WASTE TIDE Progress on e-recycling, a breakthrough with electronics industry giant HP, TCE takes on Congress in 2010 and exporting good Texas jobs along the way. The Waste Tide is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Situated on the South China Sea coast, Guiyu got famous in the global environmentalist community for its reception of E-waste. 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