China Witness : Voices from a Silent Generation Paperback / softback
by Xinran
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China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told.
Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century.
The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century.
We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, from across this vast country - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary 'double-gun woman', Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, 'will help our future understand our past'.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780099501480
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099501480