Wild Grass
China's Revolution from Below
$27.89
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2021
Summary
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals.
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves confronting oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bere…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141996233 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141996234 |
| Author: | Ian Johnson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
A gripping tale.
Illuminating … Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China’s reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain. * The Times Literary Supplement *
A gripping tale. * Washington Post *
A captivating and an important study of what is happening on the ground in China today. * The News Tribune *
About The Author
Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has spent most of his adult life in China, working as a correspondent for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of three other books that also focus on the intersection of politics, faith, and civil society, including The Souls of China- The Return of Religion After Mao, and Wild Grass- Three Stories of Change in Modern China. He is the founder of an archive of underground Chinese history.
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