Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants - Paperback
by Guidi Chen, Wu Chuntao
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Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781586484415ISBN-10:1586484419UPC:9781586484415Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, Political Economy, Regional StudiesSize:8.92 x 5.88 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCW0G68C6X
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social...
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781586484415ISBN-10:1586484419UPC:9781586484415Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, Political Economy, Regional StudiesSize:8.92 x 5.88 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCW0G68C6X
Wu Chuntao was born in the Hunan province of China in 1963. Her husband, Chen Guidi, was born in 1943 in the Chinese province of Anhui. Both come from peasant families. Wu and Chen are members and respected writers of the Hefei Literature Association.Mr. Chen received the Lu Xun Literature Achievement Award -- one of the most important literary prizes in China. Both authors have received awards...
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