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Tide Players

By Jianying Zha

Tide Players Politics & Society

Tide Players

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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2013-07-02
Publication Date:
2013-07-02
Publisher:
New Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1595588809
ISBN13:
9781595588807
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
280 g
Height:
138 cm
Width:
207 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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