Description
| Product ID: | 9780099501480 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | China Witness |
| Subtitle: | Voices from a Silent Generation |
| Authors: | Author: Xinran, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, History, Oral history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Oral history, China |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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''. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-07 |
