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Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
""When China wakes, it will shake the world," Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the people, the politics, and the paradoxes of China as never before. China Wakes combines groundbreaking reportage with the authors' personal account of how they came to discover the human stories within...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Cities in motion -- Shanghai between old and new -- Aspiration nation -- Farewell to welfare? -- A half-open media -- The "me" generation -- Unsentimental education -- The great proletarian sexual revolution -- Floating people -- The land they left behind -- Consumers and citizens -- Culture shock -- Faith, hope and disillusionment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Offering a clear picture of the vast economic and social forces of modern-day China, Professor Robert J. Shepherd addresses U.S. investment in China, China's startling economic growth, state vs. society issues in the vast republic, and the effect of social and cultural change on the Chinese people.
