Product Description

In this powerful and intensely readable book, filled with the people and places of a vast country, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn capture and illuminate the two overwhelming - yet apparently incompatible - forces that are reshaping China today. They are China's instinctive repressiveness, and the collapse of a Communist dynasty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1660324 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Life in China up to Tiananmen observed
This is one of the best researched and credible books on modern Chinese life.

It documents the experiences of two US journalists and their friends, with the narrative spanning several years up to the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.

Essentially more than a travelogue, the authors have the opportunity to roam extensively across China at the same time as working in their newspaper posts in Beijing. Their accounts range from the tragic (e.g. the Tiananmen violence) to the bizarre (e.g. wives being sold at village markets to the highest bidding peasants).

Although the book becomes somewhat scholarly in its final chapter, it remains throughout a keenly observed and fascinating portrayal of Chinese life.

China-watchers will not be able to put this book down.