Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants by Guidi Chen, Wu Chuntao

Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants

Guidi Chen, Wu Chuntao

229 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fi...

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