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China Candid
副标题: The People on the People's Republic
ISBN: 9780520245143
出版社: University of California Press
出版年: 2006-01-04
页数: 338
定价: USD 24.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under—and often despite—the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms—reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.
作者简介
Sang Ye divides his time between China and Brisbane, Australia. His most recent book is The Year the Dragon Came (1996). Geremie R. Barmé is a Professor of Chinese History at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. He is the author of An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (California, 2002), In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture (1999), and Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader (1996). Miriam Lang is a researcher and translator based at Monash University in Melbourne.
目录
Sang Ye's conversations with China / Geremie R. Barme
Introduction : words and saliva / Sang Ye 1
1 A hero for the times : a winner in the economic reforms 13
2 Chairman Mao's ark : one of the floating population 28
3 The nondissident : a party man betrayed 40
4 The union rep : a worker against the party 59
5 The people's deputy : a congresswoman 73
6 Looking ahead : the founders of a private orphanage 87
7 Getting organized : the parents of a stolen child 107
8 Shine : a prodigy 120
9 Moonwalking : a differently abled young woman 124
10 Consuming habits : on the flood of fakes 137
11 Fringe-dwellers : a nonofficial artist 145
12 The computer bug : the software pirate 157
13 Unlevel playing field : confessions of an elite athlete 166
14 A life of sex : Dr Sex 183
15 Time as money : a Shenzhen hooker 195
16 Little sweetie : a thoroughly modern mistress 206
17 Heaven's narrow gate : Christians who overcame 212
18 An army on the march : the PLA means business 223
19 Generating income : the reeducation of an English professor 235
20 To the new world : passport protection 244
21 Mastering new China : a capitalist with the party's characteristics 252
22 Down to earth : reflections of a former red guard 266
23 Just one party : a challenge from the grass roots 272
24 Beam me up : the UFOlogist 289
25 Parting shot : a Beijing executioner 298
26 Days in the life of the people's republic
