Badiucao（巴丟草） , Melissa ChanYou Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel
You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel
Mar. 2025
by Badiucao (Author), Melissa Chan (Author)
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Publisher : Street Noise Books (4 Mar. 2025)
Language : English
Paperback : 264 pages
ISBN-10 : 1951491297
ISBN-13 : 978-1951491291
From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopiangraphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that one will go to in the fight for freedom.
It's 2035. The US and China are at war. America is a proto-fascist state. Taiwan is divided into two. As conflict escalates between nuclear powers, three idealistic youths who first met in Hong Kong develop diverging beliefs about how best to navigate this techno-authoritarian landscape. Andy, Maggie, and Olivia travel different paths toward transformative change, each confronting to what extent they will fight for freedom, and who they will become in doing so.
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About the Author
Badiucao is a Chinese Australian artist, activist, and political provocateur. One of the most popular and prolific creatives from China, he confronts a variety of social and political issues in his work, often using satire to tackle censorship, authoritarianism, and capitalism. For years, he operated anonymously and was dubbed "China's Banksy". He has exhibited in the US, Australia, and throughout Europe. He has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Guardian, Time, CNN, NBC, and others. The New York Times and CBS News's 60 Minutes profiled him. In 2020, Badiucao won the Human Rights Foundation's Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. Badiucao currently lives in exile in Australia. This is his debut graphic novel.
Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American foreign correspondent based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She was previously posted in China until she became the first journalist in more than a decade to be expelled by the Chinese authorities in 2012. She has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award--business journalism's highest honor--and The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and more. She appears regularly on VICE News Tonight and Al Jazeera's Fault Lines. Melissa received a B.A. in history at Yale University and a M.S. in comparative politics at the London School of Economics. This is her debut graphic novel.