Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China - Softcover

Zha, Jianying

 
9781595588807: Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1595588809 ISBN 13: 9781595588807
Verlag: The New Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In Tide Players, acclaimed author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming today's China. In a half-dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, Tide Players captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world's fastest-growing economy.

Zha's vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely couple who teamed up to become the country's leading real-estate moguls; a gifted chameleon who transformed himself from Mao's favorite “barefoot doctor” during the Cultural Revolution to a publishing maverick; and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as “a counterrevolutionary criminal.” Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China's top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha's own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party.

Zha's insightful insider-outsider portraits garnered nationwide acclaim, as they offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jianying Zha is a writer, media critic, and China representative of the India China Institute at The New School. She is the author of China Pop and three collections of fiction and two nonfiction books in Chinese, including The Eighties, an award-winning cultural retrospective of the 1980s in China. She has published widely in both Chinese and English for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Dushu, and Wanxiang. She lives in Beijing and New York.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595588809
ISBN 13 
9781595588807
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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