Title:
Private revolutions : four women face China's new social order / Yuan Yang.
ISBN:
9780593493908
Personal Author:
Edition:
First United States edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : Viking, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
xx, 284 pages : map ; 24 cm
General Note:
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Contents:
Part one. The riverside : Siyue -- The path-breakers : June -- Women's work : Leiya -- The school on the outskirts : Siyue -- One hundred nights of struggle : June -- Part two. Surveying Shenzhen : Sam -- Injecting kids with chicken blood : June -- The drop-out teacher : Siyue -- The workers' centre : Leiya -- The limits of the system : Sam -- Part three. How to build a school : Siyue -- Should we jump? : Leiya -- Breaking the cycle : Siyue -- The most unradical one : Sam -- Part four. The City Youth Community : June -- Only money in my heart : Leiya -- Sandcastle on the shore : Siyue -- The belly she came from : Leiya -- Revolutionaries at rest : Sam -- The New Year Festival : June.
Summary:
"A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society"-- Provided by publisher.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1435803684
Availability:
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