Libro China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation De Xinran

portada China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Anchor

Autor

Xinran

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

434

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.96

ISBN

9780307388537

ISBN13

9780307388537

Categorías

Biografías
Estudios étnicos

China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation

Xinran (Autor) · Anchor · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation"

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 and great-grandparents, the men and 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, and struggles, and 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 and 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, and revelatory than any we have had before.