China Witness : Voices from a Silent Generation
by
Xinran
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0099501481
ISBN-13
9780099501480
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
Vintage
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 7th, 2009
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
320 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.00 x 3.30 cms
Product Classification:
Asian history20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Oral history
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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.
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''.
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