WILL THE BOAT SINK THE WATER?: THE LIFE OF CHINA'S PEASANTS
by CHEN, GUIDI;WU, CHUNTAO
List Price: HK$ 152.00
¡@ISBN
9781586484187
¡@Subject
CHINA
¡@Publisher
PUBLICAFFAIRS LTD USA
¡@Publication
2006
¡@Edition
Paperback
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China¡¦s 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai or Beijing. Many of China¡¦s underclass live under a feudal system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are the voiceless in modern China.Chinese journalists Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao returned to Chen¡¦s home province of Anhui, one of China¡¦s poorest, to undertake a three-year study of how the peasants fared there, asking the question: Have the peasants, in whose name the revolution in China was undertaken, been betrayed by Mao and his successors? The result is a captivating narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that dominate China¡¦s villages and counties.
