China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation - Paperback
by Xinran
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307388537ISBN-10:307388530UPC:9780307388537Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Cultural & Regional, WorldBook Topic:China, AsianSize:7.96 x 5.34 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.93Product ID:SC3900Q7EP
China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation's grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel's Working and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China--a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307388537ISBN-10:307388530UPC:9780307388537Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Cultural & Regional, WorldBook Topic:China, AsianSize:7.96 x 5.34 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.93Product ID:SC3900Q7EP
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and moved to London in 1997 to write for The Guardian. She is author of The Good Women of China, a seminal book about the lives of Chinese women, and Sky Burial. Her charity, The Mothers' Bridge of Love, was founded to help disadvantaged Chinese children and to build a bridge of understanding between the West and China.
Publisher: Anchor Books
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