LEADER 03950nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910810053803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612771866 010 $a1-4237-3147-6 010 $a1-282-77186-8 010 $a0-520-93886-0 010 $a1-59875-800-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938861 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246824 035 $a(EBL)240962 035 $a(OCoLC)62195101 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000121303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12034293 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10092864 035 $a(PQKB)10247460 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192993 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240776 035 $a(PQKB)10848280 035 $a(OCoLC)646738669 035 $a(DE-B1597)519908 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938861 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL240962 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091267 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC240962 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246824 100 $a20121015d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina candid $ethe people on the People's Republic /$fSang Ye ; edited by Geremie R. Barme with Miriam Lang 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24512-1 311 0 $a0-520-24514-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tSang Ye's Conversations with China --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction Words and Saliva --$tPart 1. Chairman Mao's Ark --$tPart 2. Moonwalking --$tPart 3. Unlevel Playing Field --$tPart 4. Heaven's Narrow Gate --$tPart 5. Mastering New China --$tPart 6. Parting Shot --$tTranslators --$tIndex 330 $aLeading 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. 517 3 $aPeople on the People's Republic 606 $aPersonal narratives 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1949- 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1949- 615 0$aPersonal narratives. 676 $a951.05/092/2 700 $aSang$b Ye$f1955-$0297726 701 $aBarme$b Geremie$0421000 701 $aLang$b Miriam$0297725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810053803321 996 $aChina candid$93967384 997 $aUNINA