Chinese Lessons Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

Name: Chinese Lessons Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
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ISBN: 9780805086645

ISBN-10: 0805086641

ISBN-13: 9780805086645

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Authors: John Pomfret

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A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution--and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 7/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English




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Warmly Welcome You



The Slap



Broken Wing



Father's Lessons



Black Bricks



A Meat Pie from Heaven



Lovers and Comrades



Bitter Love



Party Animal



Outside the Gates



New Street Crossing



A Handful of Bran



Spiritual Pollution



Petrified Marriage



Yin Finds Yang



1989



Crossed Paths



Show Me the Money



To the Barricades



Asylum



Fishy Handshakes



Into the Sea



Fake Foreign Devils



Killing the Chickens



White Like Mother's Milk



Rice Bowl Christians



Yes Man



Homecoming



The Adman



The China Price



Spiritual Civilization



Gods and Animals



Sprinting Toward Little Comforts



Pine on a Cliff



Endure



Crawling Home



The Enthusiasms of High Altitude



Severe and Acute



High Tides



Thugs' Revolution



My Place in the Procession


Conclusion: The Chinese Dream


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index