Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China

ISBN-13: 9781595588807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Jianying Zha

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In Tide Players, acclaimed author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming today s China. In a half-dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, Tide Players captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world s fastest-growing economy.
Zha s vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely couple who teamed up to become the country s leading real-estate moguls; a gifted chameleon who transformed himself from Mao s favorite barefoot doctor during the Cultural Revolution to a publishing maverick; and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as a counterrevolutionary criminal. Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China s top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha s own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party.
Zha s insightful insider-outsider portraits garnered nationwide acclaim, as they offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before.
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