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

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

Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao, Zhu Hong

256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective 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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