03943nam 2200733Ia 450 991045021150332120210608021002.097866127718661-4237-3147-61-282-77186-80-520-93886-01-59875-800-410.1525/9780520938861(CKB)1000000000246824(EBL)240962(OCoLC)62195101(SSID)ssj0000121303(PQKBManifestationID)12034293(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121303(PQKBWorkID)10092864(PQKB)10247460(SSID)ssj0000277833(PQKBManifestationID)11192993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277833(PQKBWorkID)10240776(PQKB)10848280(OCoLC)646738669(MiAaPQ)EBC240962(DE-B1597)519908(DE-B1597)9780520938861(Au-PeEL)EBL240962(CaPaEBR)ebr10091267(CaONFJC)MIL277186(EXLCZ)99100000000024682420121015d2006 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrChina candid[electronic resource] the people on the People's Republic /Sang Ye ; edited by Geremie R. Barmé with Miriam LangBerkeley University of California Press20061 online resource (365 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24512-1 0-520-24514-8 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 --IndexLeading 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.Personal narrativesChinaHistory1949-ChinaSocial conditions1949-Electronic books.Personal narratives.951.05/092/2Sang Ye1955-297726Barmé Geremie421000Lang Miriam297725MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450211503321China candid2460341UNINA