China candid : the people on the People's Republic
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China candid : the people on the People's Republic
（A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies）
University of California Press, c2006
- : pbk
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Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
Sang Ye's Conversations with China Geremie R. Barme Acknowledgments Introduction: Words and Saliva Sang Ye Chairman Mao's Ark 1. A Hero for the Times: A Winner in the Economic Reforms 2. Chairman Mao's Ark: One of the Floating Population 3. The Nondissident: A Party Man Betrayed 4. The Union Rep: A Worker against the Party 5. The People's Deputy: A Congresswoman Moonwalking 6. Looking Ahead: The Founders of a Private Orphanage 7. Getting Organized: The Parents of a Stolen Child 8. Shine: A Child Prodigy 9. Moonwalking: A Differently Abled Young Woman Unlevel Playing Field 10. Consuming Habits: On the Flood of Fakes 11. Fringe-Dwellers: A Nonofficial Artist 12. The Computer Bug: The Software Pirate 13. Unlevel Playing Field: Confessions of an Elite Athlete Heaven's Narrow Gate 14. A Life of Sex: Dr Sex 15. Time as Money: A Shenzhen Hooker 16. Little Sweetie: A Thoroughly Modern Mistress 17. Heaven's Narrow Gate: Christians Who Overcame Mastering New China 18. An Army on the March: The PLA Means Business 19. Generating Income: The Reeducation of an English Professor 20. To the New World: Passport Protection 21. Mastering New China: A Capitalist with the Party's Characteristics 22. Down to Earth: Reflections of a Former Red Guard 23. Just One Party: A Challenge from the Grass Roots Parting Shot 24. Beam Me Up: The UFOlogist 25. Parting Shot: A Beijing Executioner 26. Days in the Life of the People's Republic List of Translators Index
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