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China 2185
China 2185 (Chinese: 中国2185) is a 1989 science fiction novel released by author Liu Cixin. The novel portrays how the digital reanimation technology triggers a cybernetic uprising in a future China. Its themes both critique liberal democracy and cultural conservativism. As a result of the novel, Liu developed a reputation as China's first author in the cyberpunk genre.
The novel portrays how the advancement of digital reanimation triggers a cybernetic uprising in a future China. In China 2185, the world is a triarchy balanced between the Soviet Union, China, and the United States. The country is a perfect democracy led by a directly elected 29-year-old president whose electoral popularity is significantly driven by her charisma and public image over intellectual or political merit. However, her youthful image and radical, progressive policies face vehement backlash from the extremely aged populace, with hundreds of millions of elderly two-century-old people who are kept alive through hyperadvanced medical technology. With young and capable people a minority among the already boggling population, the president is confronted with the dual and opposing problems of overpopulation and an aging populace.
In the story, a hacker only known as M102 by the ID the security system assigns him, infiltrates Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and uses holographic simulation software to scan the brain of Chairman Mao. It is revealed he has scanned the brains of five normal, recently deceased civilians before. These are the first such attempts at such a high fidelity scan of the human brain. The scanned people are then recreated in cyberspace as digital programs, codenamed Brains 1 through 6 (Mao being the 6th).
The president faces a difficult divorce case, and her appearance in the courtroom and the outcome of the trial - losing rights to her daughter - devastates her but boosts her popularity among the young. However, her perceived slight against the nuclear family and by extention, traditional culture, gets her assaulted by an extremely old person as she makes her way back through Beijing. Later, she visits the home of a child estranged from his aged and repressive family she befriended earlier and tries to talk him out of his woes with dozens of immobile, paralyzed ancestors occupying and taking up his family's resources and his parents' attention. She shows him to her presidential office and has him approve several minor decisions to amuse him. Here she learns of the resurrections of Brains 1 through 6 by M102 and immediately classifies this information to an extreme degree. The child, part of a group of tens of thousands of children who take to the skies at night illicitly on flying motorbikes to vent their dissatisfaction at the ineptitude and domination of the old, flies with the president anonymously afterward. The president pours out her frustration at the hyper-conservative, aged part of the populace.
After the president and the child shares dinner at her home, a PLA major, her personal bodyguard, fetches her to a secret base codenamed "Anti-Quake Center 1", disguised as a weather station and serves as a command center in case an attack or fault disables or damages the advanced, omnipresent software infrastructure much of the country's crucial infrastructure and industrial base relies on. The Brains 1 through 6 programs are fed into a supercomputer and analyzed by several groups of experts. The president, realizing the potential of such technology, calls an emergency meeting with the most important members of her cabinet. They decide to announce this breakthrough to the country at a National People's Meeting, a virtual conference where every citizen is capable of participating personally thanks to extremely advanced computing technology of 2185.
At the conference, the people are euphoric at the prospect of effective immortality. However, they are outraged after learning of the virtual incarceration of the Brains in the Quake-center supercomputer. By majority vote, the brains are granted access to the entire network of the country. They promise not to cause sabotage and intentional damage.
However, it is revealed Brain 2 is deeply dissatisfied at the country's progressiveness, and committed suicide due to outrage at the newer, unconventional formats of the nuclear family present in the 22nd century. Brain 2 begins to clone himself trillions of times, appearing as "electric pulse beings". These digital clones regard the China they encounter as having turned towards revisionism. They deem China as overcome with crass materialism and degeneracy. The digital clones occupy the central computer and establish a cyber government named The Republic of Huaxia (an archaic, traditional name for China). They hijack China's internet-based security system to censor behaviors they deem deviant, including by destroying neon lights, removing bikini advertisements, and shutting down night clubs. The digital clones broadcast information on sexual morality, work ethics, and traditional modes of living. They violently oppress the populace. Brain 2's clones are called "Software Nukes" by the cyberspace forces of China, owing to their human intelligence that allows them to attack and destroy practically every kind of conceivable programming. China shuts down its connections to the outside world. All contact is capitally forbidden and any vessel, even civilian, attempting to enter or leave China is mercilessly destroyed by the PLA.
The UNSC activates an "Armageddon" protocol, owing to the unlimited destructive potential these trillions of omnipotent and malevolent beings could have on the wider world should they proliferate to other nations' network systems. The USSR is tasked with the nuclear "disinfection" of China should the threat not be eliminated within two hours, giving China until 23:48 until the nuclear weapons arrive. The US and European forces manoeuvre their space and sea-based forces to encroach and lock down China. The General Secretary of the Soviet Union is torn as his daughter is in China on a school visit yet orders the launch silos to be readied. China begins evacuation of its population into nuclear shelters, but due to insufficient capacity, elders are not admitted.
China 2185
China 2185 (Chinese: 中国2185) is a 1989 science fiction novel released by author Liu Cixin. The novel portrays how the digital reanimation technology triggers a cybernetic uprising in a future China. Its themes both critique liberal democracy and cultural conservativism. As a result of the novel, Liu developed a reputation as China's first author in the cyberpunk genre.
The novel portrays how the advancement of digital reanimation triggers a cybernetic uprising in a future China. In China 2185, the world is a triarchy balanced between the Soviet Union, China, and the United States. The country is a perfect democracy led by a directly elected 29-year-old president whose electoral popularity is significantly driven by her charisma and public image over intellectual or political merit. However, her youthful image and radical, progressive policies face vehement backlash from the extremely aged populace, with hundreds of millions of elderly two-century-old people who are kept alive through hyperadvanced medical technology. With young and capable people a minority among the already boggling population, the president is confronted with the dual and opposing problems of overpopulation and an aging populace.
In the story, a hacker only known as M102 by the ID the security system assigns him, infiltrates Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and uses holographic simulation software to scan the brain of Chairman Mao. It is revealed he has scanned the brains of five normal, recently deceased civilians before. These are the first such attempts at such a high fidelity scan of the human brain. The scanned people are then recreated in cyberspace as digital programs, codenamed Brains 1 through 6 (Mao being the 6th).
The president faces a difficult divorce case, and her appearance in the courtroom and the outcome of the trial - losing rights to her daughter - devastates her but boosts her popularity among the young. However, her perceived slight against the nuclear family and by extention, traditional culture, gets her assaulted by an extremely old person as she makes her way back through Beijing. Later, she visits the home of a child estranged from his aged and repressive family she befriended earlier and tries to talk him out of his woes with dozens of immobile, paralyzed ancestors occupying and taking up his family's resources and his parents' attention. She shows him to her presidential office and has him approve several minor decisions to amuse him. Here she learns of the resurrections of Brains 1 through 6 by M102 and immediately classifies this information to an extreme degree. The child, part of a group of tens of thousands of children who take to the skies at night illicitly on flying motorbikes to vent their dissatisfaction at the ineptitude and domination of the old, flies with the president anonymously afterward. The president pours out her frustration at the hyper-conservative, aged part of the populace.
After the president and the child shares dinner at her home, a PLA major, her personal bodyguard, fetches her to a secret base codenamed "Anti-Quake Center 1", disguised as a weather station and serves as a command center in case an attack or fault disables or damages the advanced, omnipresent software infrastructure much of the country's crucial infrastructure and industrial base relies on. The Brains 1 through 6 programs are fed into a supercomputer and analyzed by several groups of experts. The president, realizing the potential of such technology, calls an emergency meeting with the most important members of her cabinet. They decide to announce this breakthrough to the country at a National People's Meeting, a virtual conference where every citizen is capable of participating personally thanks to extremely advanced computing technology of 2185.
At the conference, the people are euphoric at the prospect of effective immortality. However, they are outraged after learning of the virtual incarceration of the Brains in the Quake-center supercomputer. By majority vote, the brains are granted access to the entire network of the country. They promise not to cause sabotage and intentional damage.
However, it is revealed Brain 2 is deeply dissatisfied at the country's progressiveness, and committed suicide due to outrage at the newer, unconventional formats of the nuclear family present in the 22nd century. Brain 2 begins to clone himself trillions of times, appearing as "electric pulse beings". These digital clones regard the China they encounter as having turned towards revisionism. They deem China as overcome with crass materialism and degeneracy. The digital clones occupy the central computer and establish a cyber government named The Republic of Huaxia (an archaic, traditional name for China). They hijack China's internet-based security system to censor behaviors they deem deviant, including by destroying neon lights, removing bikini advertisements, and shutting down night clubs. The digital clones broadcast information on sexual morality, work ethics, and traditional modes of living. They violently oppress the populace. Brain 2's clones are called "Software Nukes" by the cyberspace forces of China, owing to their human intelligence that allows them to attack and destroy practically every kind of conceivable programming. China shuts down its connections to the outside world. All contact is capitally forbidden and any vessel, even civilian, attempting to enter or leave China is mercilessly destroyed by the PLA.
The UNSC activates an "Armageddon" protocol, owing to the unlimited destructive potential these trillions of omnipotent and malevolent beings could have on the wider world should they proliferate to other nations' network systems. The USSR is tasked with the nuclear "disinfection" of China should the threat not be eliminated within two hours, giving China until 23:48 until the nuclear weapons arrive. The US and European forces manoeuvre their space and sea-based forces to encroach and lock down China. The General Secretary of the Soviet Union is torn as his daughter is in China on a school visit yet orders the launch silos to be readied. China begins evacuation of its population into nuclear shelters, but due to insufficient capacity, elders are not admitted.