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Item Details
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CHINA WITNESS
VOICES FROM A SILENT GENERATION |
| By: |
Xinran |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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£12.40 |
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£4.59 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099501481 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099501480 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 May, 2009 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization. |
| Synopsis: |
China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century. We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, from across this vast country - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary 'double-gun woman', Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, 'will help our future understand our past'. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations (some col.), map, ports. (some col.) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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