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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation-Xin
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation-Xinran
- ISBN
- 9780701180393
- EAN
- 9780701180393
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
- Item Height
- 240 mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 756 g
- Item Width
- 162 mm
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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In 1912, 5,000 years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power. China Witness is a personal testimony from a normally silent generation, a huge, major work of oral history which sums up, in their own words, the vast changes which have overtaken China and its people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and through her own country, and a memorial to an extraordinary generation who have lived through war and civil war, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century to tell the story of their times. In the lifetimes of these men and women, China has transformed from a largely peasant, agricultural country of more than 1.3 billion people into a modern state.These are ordinary people - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary 'double-gun woman', Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a naval general, a shoemender, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and others - from across the vast country, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties and whose memories will soon die with them. Xinran has gone all over China, from west to east, between the Yellow River and the Yangtze, interviewing them about their lives, their feelings, their hopes and fears, and their memories.They are a reticent generation from a country where the idea of collective guilt is deeply rooted and where freedom of speech can be a dangerous and unfamiliar concept...and for the first time many of them will speak out about their lives and private thoughts, about what they witnessed and what they felt - about everything from the Long March to oil pipelines, from land reform to folk medicine, from Mao to marriage.Together their stories are perhaps the only accurate record of modern Chinese history and paint an unprecedentedly intimate portrait of this vast and powerful country and its people, close-up and personal.Its aim, as Xinran says is 'to help our future understand our past'.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701180393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91456725
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
Publication Year
2008
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
756 g
Item Width
162 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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