The online political cartoon in China called Hexie Farm is loosely based on which allegorical novella written by George Orwell?
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Hexie Farm Hexie Farm (), by an author known as Crazy Crab, is an online political cartoon in China critical of the Chinese government. "Hexie" in Chinese Pinyin is a pun on harmony and river crab. The cartoon started running in August 2010, focusing on animal characters living in a "Harmonic Farm". It is loosely based on George Orwell’s novel "Animal Farm".
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Animal Farm Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described "Animal Farm" as a satirical tale against Stalin (""un conte satirique contre Staline""), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that "Animal Farm" was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
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Easter Eve (short story) "Easter Eve" (Russian: Святою ночью , "Svyatoyu nochyu " ) is a 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
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George Orwell: A Life in Pictures George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
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How Long Is Forever? How Long Is Forever?, also translated as How Far Is Forever? and How Long Will Eternity Last?, is a 1999 Chinese novella by Tie Ning. Set in Beijing, the novella follows a sincere and altruistic-to-a-fault girl named Bai Daxing who never changes: forever like a meek child, she always gives in to others' demands even as she gets used and dumped over and over again. Through the static Bai Daxing, Tie Ning also explores the changing values in Beijing from the 1970s Cultural Revolution to the 1990s as China experiences rapid economic growth and urbanization.
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The Tain (novella) The Tain is a fantasy novella by British author China Miéville.
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Political fiction Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction, such as political novels, often "directly criticize an existing society or present an alternative, even fantastic, reality". It overlaps with the social novel, proletarian novel and social science fiction. Highly influential earlier works include "Gulliver's Travels" (1726), "Candide" (1759), and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852).
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Shaolin Sect The Shaolin Sect is a fictional martial arts sect mentioned in several works of "wuxia" fiction. It is one of the largest and best known orthodox sects in the "wulin" (martial artists' community). Its base is in Shaolin Monastery, Henan, China. It is also sometimes referred to as "Shaolin Monastery" or "Shaolin Temple" instead of "Shaolin Sect".
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Snowball (Animal Farm) Snowball is a character in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He is largely based on Leon Trotsky and describes how he led the opposition against Joseph Stalin (Napoleon), though he also includes elements of Vladimir Lenin. He is shown as a pink pig on the movie poster for the 1999 film "Animal Farm", being voiced by Kelsey Grammer.
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San zhi xiao zhu San zhi xiao zhu is the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of the Chinese language name for the popular folk-tale "The Three Little Pigs". In late 2005, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan listed the phrase in an appendix to its online "chengyu" (idiom) dictionary; media reports on the listing surfaced in Taiwan and later Hong Kong in late January 2007, generating a controversy over the definition of "chengyu" in which academics and members of the public criticised the Ministry of Education.
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Rebel Pepper Wang Liming (; born 1973), better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒), is a Chinese political cartoonist who has left China to live in Japan. Wang left China out of fears for his safety resulting from the increasing crackdown on freedom of expression by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Sword and planet Sword and planet is a subgenre of science fantasy that features rousing adventure stories set on other planets, and usually featuring Earthmen as protagonists. The name derives from the heroes of the genre engaging their adversaries in hand-to-hand combat primarily with simple melée weapons such as swords, even in a setting that often has advanced technology. Although there are works that herald the genre, such as Percy Greg's "Across the Zodiac" (1880) and Edwin Lester Arnold's "" (1905; published in the US in 1964 as "Gulliver of Mars"), the prototype for the genre is "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs originally serialized by "All-Story" in 1912 as "Under the Moons of Mars".
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William Wilson (short story) "William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also appeared in the 1840 collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque", and has been adapted several times.
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Loser Takes All Loser Takes All is a 1955 novella by British author Graham Greene.
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Love in a Cold Climate Love in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949. The title is a direct quotation from George Orwell's novel "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" (1936).
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Germany. A Winter's Tale Germany. A Winter's Tale (German: "Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen" ) is a satirical epic poem by the German writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), describing the thoughts of a journey from Paris to Hamburg the author made in Winter 1843. The title refers to Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale", similar to his poem "Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraum" ("Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream"), written 1841–46.
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A Life in Pieces A Life in Pieces is a Big Finish original novella collection, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
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Fortress Besieged Fortress Besieged (Simplified Chinese: 围城; Traditional Chinese: 圍城; Pinyin: wéi chéng) is a Chinese satiric novel written by Qian Zhongshu, first published in 1947, and widely considered one of the masterpieces of twentieth century Chinese literature. The novel is a humorous tale about middle-class Chinese society in the late 1930s. It was made into a popular television series in the early 1990s.
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Confusion (novella) Confusion (German:Verwirrung der Gefühle), also known under the literal translation Confusion of Feelings, and as Episode in the Early Life of Privy Councillor D. is a 1927 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It tells the story of a student and his friendship with a professor. It was originally published in the omnibus volume "Conflicts: Three Tales", together with two other Zweig novellas, "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" and "Untergang eines Herzens". It was included on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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The Lifted Veil The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, "The Lifted Veil" explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886), and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897).
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The Brotherhood (Nineteen Eighty-Four) The Brotherhood is a fictional organization in George Orwell's novel, "Nineteen-Eighty Four". It is mysterious in origin and operations, purportedly working to bring down The Party.
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The Ice Dragon The Ice Dragon is a children's fantasy novella by George R. R. Martin, originally published in 1980 in the Ace Books anthology "Dragons of Light". It was later included in Martin's 1987 collection "Portraits of His Children". The story was reworked in 2007 with artwork by Yvonne Gilbert and again in 2014 with a series of original paintings by Luis Royo.