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. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of...
The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shangh...
""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an ""enemy"" of the people.
""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record o...
""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an ""enemy"" of the people.
""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record o...
