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Bezig met laden... Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasantsdoor Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I learned a great deal about the Chinese political system. For instance, the US has a three tiered system whereas China has a five tiered system. The burden that the Chinese peasantry must bear to support this bloated bureaucracy is excessive as are the local cadres methods of squeezing the peasants for money. I knew this book would be good since it is banned in China. I was not disappointed. It takes a truthful, fair look at one area of modern China that needs A LOT of improvement. ( ) Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. Translated by Zhu Hong ISBN-13 978-1-58648-358-6 2006, Public Affairs division of Perseus Books Group 225 pages, hardback Based on three-years of investigative journalism starting in Anhui province, this book portrays the true story of life for China’s poorest 900 million. The authors state that China’s ‘great leap forward’ may fail if the nation cannot raise the standard of living for these 900 million who still live under feudal conditions. Petty dictators dominate villages and counties, and make life hazardous for peasants who live in abject poverty. These officials destroy villagers’ health and living standards, and prevent justice for the poor. Millions of copies of this gripping story were sold in China before the book was published around the world. An important book everyone who cares about China should read. (I’m not mentioning that since the book was banned, the authors have suffered persecution, harassment by the courts, and other disasters, like their home destroyed by a mob.)
Chen and Wu have produced an enlightening but highly disturbing book. Their work, for understandable reasons, was banned soon after its publication in China, but tens of thousands of underground copies have circulated throughout the country. It is exactly the kind of book that anybody even remotely interested in China should read, because it gives a much more realistic portrait of the underside of China's economic miracle than is available elsewhere.
A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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