LEADER 04830nam 22007335 450 001 9910465564503321 005 20210114024009.0 010 $a1-283-54325-7 010 $a9786613855701 010 $a0-520-95413-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520954137 035 $a(CKB)2560000000089553 035 $a(EBL)996187 035 $a(OCoLC)809771519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10725311 035 $a(PQKB)11145153 035 $a(DE-B1597)519071 035 $a(OCoLC)815489488 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520954137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC996187 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000089553 100 $a20200424h20122012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChinese Characters $eProfiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land /$fAngilee Shah, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27026-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. "Who Are You This Time?" -- $tChapter 1. The North Peak -- $tChapter 2. The New Generation's Neocon Nationalists -- $tChapter 3. Out of Tibet -- $tChapter 4. Belonging to Old Beijing -- $tChapter 5. Another Swimmer -- $tChapter 6. Looking for Lok To -- $tChapter 7. The Ever-Floating Floater -- $tChapter 8 King of the Road -- $tChapter 9. Painting the Outside World -- $tChapter 10. The Road to a Better Life -- $tChapter 11. Yong Yang's Odyssey -- $tChapter 12. The Court Jester -- $tChapter 13. The Great Wall of Education -- $tChapter 14. Gilded Age, Gilded Cage -- $tChapter 15 Shredding for the Motherland -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes and Readings -- $tContributors -- $tCredits 330 $aAn artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a growing car culture by trying to convince people not to buy cars. And a 90-year-old woman remembers how the oldest neighborhoods of her city used to be. These are the exciting and saddening, humorous and confusing stories of utterly ordinary people who are living through China's extraordinary transformations. The immense variety in the lives of these Chinese characters dispels any lingering sense that China has a monolithic population or is just a place where dissidents fight Communist Party loyalists and laborers create goods for millionaires.Chinese Characters is a collection, as Pankaj Mishra writes in his foreword, ";to herald a new golden age of journalism about a ceaselessly fascinating country."; Contributors include a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a Macarthur Fellow, the China correspondent to a major Indian newspaper, and scholars whose depth of understanding is matched only by the humanity with which they treat their subjects. Their stories together create a multi-faceted portrait of a country in motion and an introduction to some of the best writing on China today.With contributions from: Alec Ash, James Carter, Leslie T. Chang, Xujun Eberlein, Harriet Evans, Anna Greenspan, Peter Hessler, Ian Johnson, Ananth Krishnan, Christina Larson, Michelle Dammon Loyalka, James Millward, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Prescott, Megan Shank 606 $aChina - Social life and customs 606 $aChina -- Social life and customs 606 $aNational characteristics, Chinese 606 $aNational characteristics, Chinese 606 $aNational characteristics, Chinese 606 $aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aEast Asia$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aChina - Social life and customs. 615 4$aChina -- Social life and customs. 615 4$aNational characteristics, Chinese. 615 4$aNational characteristics, Chinese. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Chinese 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aEast Asia 676 $a951 702 $aShah$b Angilee, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aWasserstrom$b Jeffrey N., $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465564503321 996 $aChinese Characters$92464477 997 $aUNINA