China candid [[electronic resource] ] : the people on the People's Republic / / Sang Ye ; edited by Geremie R. Barmé with Miriam Lang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810053803321
• Autore: Sang Ye <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006
• ISBN: 9786612771866; 1-4237-3147-6; 1-282-77186-8; 0-520-93886-0; 1-59875-800-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BarméGeremie; LangMiriam
• Disciplina: 951.05/092/2
• Soggetti: Personal narratives; China History 1949-; China Social conditions 1949-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.