Private revolutions four women face China's new social order

"While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers -- women born during China's turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gai...

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Main Author: Yang, Yuan, 1990- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : Viking, 2024.
Edition:First United States edition.
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Table of 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.