China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman, Xinran, Julia Lovell
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 & great-grandparents, the men & 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, & struggles, & 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 & 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, & revelatory than any we have had before.
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Рік:
2009
Видавництво:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage Books
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
434
ISBN 10:
140908843X
ISBN 13:
9781409088431
Файл:
MOBI , 2.04 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009