Will the boat sink the water? : the life of China's peasants / Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao ; translated from Chinese by Zhu Hong.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>A prize-winning investigative exposé of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.</div>
- Contents:
- contents; authors' preface; introduction; post-liberation time line of events important to chinese peasants, with emphasis on agriculture; 1 the martyr; 2 the village tyrant; 3 the long and the short of the "antitax uprising"; 4 the long road; 5 a vicious circle; 6 the search for a way out; about the authors and translator; translator's acknowledgment; index
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 1-58648-539-3
- 9786613073396
- 1-283-07339-0
- OCLC:
- 712016005
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