China candid : the people on the People's Republic / Sang Ye ; edited by Geremie R. Barme with Miriam Lang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sang, Ye, 1955-

Contributor:

Barmé, Geremie.

Lang, Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal narratives.

China--History--1949-.

China.

China--Social conditions--1949-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

People on the People's Republic

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Sang Ye's Conversations with China

Acknowledgments

Introduction Words and Saliva

Part 1. Chairman Mao's Ark

Part 2. Moonwalking

Part 3. Unlevel Playing Field

Part 4. Heaven's Narrow Gate

Part 5. Mastering New China

Part 6. Parting Shot

Translators

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612771866

9781423731474

1423731476

9781282771864

1282771868

9780520938861

0520938860

9781598758009

1598758004

OCLC:

62195101