Song Qiang

{{Short description|Chinese writer}}

Song Qiang is a co-author of China Can Say No,{{cite news|last=Tempest|first=Rome|title=WORLD PERSPECTIVE / Culture; Just Say 'No' to U.S., Young Chinese Urge|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/16644787.html?dids=16644787:16644787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+05,+1996&author=RONE+TEMPEST&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=WORLD+PERSPECTIVE+/+Culture;+Just+Say+%27No%27+to+U.S.,+Young+Chinese+Urge&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201034933/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/16644787.html?dids=16644787:16644787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+05,+1996&author=RONE+TEMPEST&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=WORLD+PERSPECTIVE+/+Culture;+Just+Say+'No'+to+U.S.,+Young+Chinese+Urge&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013|accessdate=29 December 2010|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=5 July 1996}} 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-themed rhetoric.

In 1995, Zhang Zangzang recruited four co-authors to write a book that would appeal to growing nationalist sentiment in China.{{Cite book |last=Tu |first=Hang |title=Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past |publisher=Harvard University Asia Center |year=2025 |isbn=9780674297579}}{{Rp|page=227}} 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).{{Rp|page=227}} Zhang asked each author to write their portion of the book and combined their five sections as a collection of views.{{Rp|page=228}} The resulting book, China Can Say No, became a benchmark for 1990s nationalist sentiment.{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Frances Yaping |title=The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2024 |isbn=9780197757512 |pages=69}} Shortly after publication, the authors became national celebrities.{{Rp|page=240}}

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.{{Rp|page=228}}