Format:
1 online resource (365 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520938861
Content:
Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under--and often despite--the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms--reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Sang Ye's Conversations with China -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Words and Saliva -- I. Chairman Mao's Ark -- 1. A Hero for the Times: A Winner in the Economic Reforms -- 2. Chariman Mao's Ark: One of the Floating Population -- 3. The Nondissent: A Party Man Betrayed -- 4. The Union Rep: A Worder Against the Party -- 5. The People's Deputy: A Congresswoman -- II. Moonwalking -- 6. Looking Ahead: The Founders of a Private Orphanage -- 7. Getting Organized: The Parents of a Stolen Child -- 8. Shine: A Prodigy -- 9. Moonwalking: A Differently Abled Young Woman -- III. Unlevel Playing Field -- 10. Consuming Habits: On the Flood of Fakes -- 11. Fringe-Dwellers: A Nonofficial Artist -- 12. The Computer Bug: The Software Pirate -- 13. Unlevel Playing Field: Confessions of an Elite Athlete -- IV. Heaven's Narrow Gate -- 14. A Life of Sex: Dr. Sex -- 15. Time as Money: A Shenzhen Hooker -- 16. Little Sweetie: A Thoroughly Modern Mistress -- 17. Heaven's Narrow Gate: Christians Who Overcame -- V. Mastering New China -- 18. An Army on the March: The PLA Means Business -- 19. Generating Income: The Reeducation of an English Professor -- 20. To the New World: Passport Protection -- 21. Mastering New China: A Capitalist with the Party's Characteristics -- 22. Down to Earth: Reflections of a Former Red Guard -- 23. Just One Party: A Challenge from the Grass Roots -- VI. Parting Shot -- 24. Beam Me Up: The UFOlogist -- 25. Parting Shot: A Beijing Executioner -- 26. Days in the Life of the People's Republic -- List of Translators -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520245143
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520245143
Additional Edition:
Print version China Candid : The People on the People's Republic
Language:
English
Keywords:
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