Song Qiang is a co-author of ''
China Can Say No'',
''The Way Out For China: Under the Shadow of Globalization'' and
Unhappy China. He keeps a Chinese language blog, 开花の身体, in which he intersperses musings on the culinary arts with
nationalist
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-themed rhetoric.
In 1995,
Zhang Zangzang recruited four co-authors to write a book that would appeal to growing nationalist sentiment in China.
These included Song (who was working as an advertising manager in Chongqing and was a college friend of Zhang), Qiao Bian (a gardener at the Beijing Gardening and Greening Bureau), Gu Qingsheng (a Beijing-based freelance writer), and Tang Zhengyu (a reporter from the ''China Business Times'').
Zhang asked each author to write their portion of the book and combined their five sections as a collection of views.
The resulting book, ''China Can Say No'', became a benchmark for 1990s nationalist sentiment.
Shortly after publication, the authors became national celebrities.
Song's section of ''China Can Say No'' is ''The Death of Heaven's Mandate and the Coming of a New Order'', an autobiographical account of Song's development from a naive pro-American student to a Chinese patriot.
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开花の身体
21st-century Chinese essayists
Chinese nationalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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