Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants

Name: Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants
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ISBN: 9781586484415

ISBN-10: 1586484419

ISBN-13: 9781586484415

Edition: 2006

Authors: Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao, Zhu Hong

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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 feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties, and the consequences of their bullying…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 4/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English