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The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of boomingShanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalisticsystem unchanged since the fifteenthcentury.
Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what hadhappened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking thequestion: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolutionundertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is abrilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of the pettydictators that run China's villages and counties, and the consequences oftheir bullying despotism on the people they administer.
Told principally through four dramatic narratives, Will the Boat Sinkthe Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath thegloss of the new China to find the truth about its vast populationof rural poor.
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"A banned book whose publication is compared to a clap of thunder... delves deeply into the rural conundrum that continues to bedevil China's Communist Party leaders" 作者简介
Chen Guidi and his wife Wu Chuntao were born into peasantfamilies. Guidi received the Lu Xun Literature Achievement Award--one ofthe most important literary prizes in China. Both authors have receivedawards from the journal Contemporary Age for groundbreaking reportage.
| 出版社 | PublicAffairs |
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| 作者 | Chen Guidi |