Description
Using ten familiar words and phrases from everyday Chinese speech, this incisive cultural portrait explores the forces reshaping contemporary China. It moves between personal memory, social observation, and historical reflection to illuminate the country’s extraordinary economic growth, widening inequalities, shifting values, and enduring contradictions. With wit, candor, and a keen eye for the absurd, the book examines subjects ranging from ambition and consumerism to censorship, corruption, and the many forms of deception woven into daily life. The result is an accessible and thought-provoking guide to a society in rapid transformation.
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paperback
Pantheon Books
Published Jan 1, 2011
225 pages
ISBN: 9780307379351
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Translation
From: chi
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