Unhappy China—The Great Time, Grand Vision and Our Challenges is a book written by Song Qiang

Song Qiang

Song Qiang is a co-author of China Can Say No and The Way Out For China: Under the Shadow of Globalization. He keeps a Chinese language blog, 开花の身体, in which he intersperses musings on the culinary arts with nationalist-themed rhetoric....

, 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

China Can Say No or The China That Can Say No: Political and Emotional Choices in the post Cold-War era is a 1996 Chinese-language non-fiction bestseller written and edited by Zhang Zangzang, Zhang Xiaobo, Song Qiang, Tang Zhengyu, Qiao Bian and Gu Qingsheng...

, caused controversy, encouraging China to become a hegemon

Hegemony

Hegemony is an indirect form of imperial dominance in which the hegemon rules sub-ordinate states by the implied means of power rather than direct military force. In Ancient Greece , hegemony denoted the politico–military dominance of a city-state over other city-states...

 rather than getting cast aside.

The book was a bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies in the month after publication. In contrast, the Chinese newspaper Shanghai Daily

Shanghai Daily

Shanghai Daily is an English-language newspaper in China started in October 1999 and owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group. Its primary audience is visiting foreigners, mainly overseas investors and tourists to Shanghai, though many Chinese students read it to improve their English...

reported that the book "caused a stir among some experts and scholars" but "failed to strike a chord among average Chinese", and some readers reject the book as "bitter rant of ultra left-wing intellectuals who feel sidelined under Beijing’s policies of reform and opening."