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Yevgeny Zamyatin: Wo men x My (Chinese language, 2014, Ye ren wen hua gu fen you xian gong si)

252 pages

Chinese language

Published Dec. 6, 2014 by Ye ren wen hua gu fen you xian gong si.

ISBN:
978-986-384-002-2
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OCLC Number:
907394969

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We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. The individual's behavior is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State.

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