| Description |
xii,293 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Consolidating Power: 1949-1956. Return to the Motherland / Zhou Youguang. Victory Days / Isabel Crook. Resist America, Aid Korea! / Zhang Da. Speak Bitterness / Sheng Chong. The Blank Page / Zhang Tong. Honeymoon on the Roof of the World / Tashi Tsering -- Leaping into Famine: 1957-1965. Righting the Wronged / Dai Huang. The Battle for Steel / Bu Yulong. The Three Bitter Years / Bian Shaofeng. Bridge-Building / Zhong Xunzheng. Goodbye, Elder Brother / Li Sha. Rustless Screw / Qiao Anshan -- Making Revolution: 1966-1976. Shanghai Rebel / An Wenjiang. Down to the Countryside / Wu Xiaoping. Voices of Madness / Feng Jicai. Foreign Prisoner of Mao / David Crook. The Red Sun in Our Hearts / Ma Jingjun. The Nixon Shock / Zhang Hanzhi. Imperial Cowherd / Gobro Runqi -- Opening the Doors: 1977-1989. The Writing on the Wall / Wang Shan. The Red Flag of Dazhai / Song Liying. Same Bed, Different Dreams / Don St. Pierre. Nothing to My Name / Cui Jian. A Peddler's Pride / Zhou Peikun |
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Yangtze! Yangtze! / Dai Qing. Blood on the Square / Na Han -- Entering the World: 1990-1999. To Get Rich is Glorious / Liu Yonghao. Rubbish Man / Xiao Liangyu. Holding Up Half the Sky / Wang Xingjuan. Opiate of the People / Allan Yuan. End of the Iron Rice-Bowl / Chen Liyan and Yue Xiuying. The Election Campaign / Yang Yonghe. Coming Home / Sherry Liu |
| Summary |
"China Remembers commemorates the PRC's journey to date, by presenting some of the most honest, varied, and compelling accounts of the country ever compiled."--BOOK JACKET. "The contributors to this book recall the campaigns and crackdowns that have shaped the lives of almost a quarter of the world's population, from the land reform that swept every village and the utopian zeal of the Great Leap Forward, to the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and the vanquished hopes of Tiananmen Square."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Compilation of recollections from interviewees to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China, October 1st, 1999 |
| Subject |
Chinese -- Interviews.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024174
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
MacLeod, Calum, 1969-
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| LC no. |
99041327 |
| ISBN |
0195917367 |
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