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China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

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China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

by Kristof, Nicholas D. ; Wudunn, Sheryl

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NY: Time Books 1994 Third Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. When China wakes, it will shake the world," Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the people, the politics, and the paradoxes of China as never before. China Wakes combines groundbreaking reportage with the authors' personal account of how they came to discover the human stories within the world's most populous nation. Attracted by China's potential for greatness and repelled by its propensity for cruelty, Kristof and WuDunn struggle to reconcile their optimism about China's future with the brutality that always seems to break their hearts." "In the pages of China Wakes, the story of China's economic takeoff unfolds before us like passages from a great novel. Kristof and WuDunn, the first married couple ever to win a Pulitzer for journalism, take us with them to meet their friends (and enemies) and share their concerns - especially WuDunn's ambivalence about how, as a Chinese-American, she must come to terms with the legacy of her ancestral homeland. WuDunn takes us along as she slips into a China usually hidden from foreigners, a China of cabinet ministers making unwanted advances on local women and of peasants who cannot afford pants for their children. We also accompany Kristof as he witnesses Chinese troops massacring protesters at Tiananmen Square and later comes face to face with the man who betrayed the leaders of the democracy movement to the police." "With the Chinese economy (the world's third largest) on a trajectory to overtake Japan and the United States in the coming decades, Kristof and WuDunn describe a spectacular economic boom that has enabled a twenty-three-year old to start his own airline or a manual laborer to become a millionaire furniture manufacturer. But they also reveal the chilling paradox lurking beneath these rags-to-riches stories: despite the stock markets and the cellular telephones, China has retained its totalitarian infrastructure, including the notorious "shackleboards" to which dissidents are strapped and brutally tortured. And with the world's largest army, the People's Republic continues to embody a tremendous challenge to the stability of the Pacific Rim." "Never before has China been portrayed so compellingly or with such feeling. As this great nation stands poised to fulfill Napoleon's prediction, China Wakes is an indispensable guide to the rumblings ahead. date to front end paper.ref10

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Title
China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
Author
Kristof, Nicholas D. ; Wudunn, Sheryl
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Quantity Available
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Edition
Third Printing
ISBN 10
0812922522
ISBN 13
9780812922523
Publisher
Time Books
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1994
Keywords
china chinese historical social studies sociology
Bookseller catalogs
History; HISTORY / Asia / China;
Size
8vo

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