Bad Elements
by Buruma, Ian
Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China's future to be fund amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral cmpaign in Taiwan, or in the manoeuvres by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state? These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Travelling through the U.…
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Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China's future to be fund amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral cmpaign in Taiwan, or in the manoeuvres by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state? These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Travelling through the U.S., Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic, Ian Buruma tells the stories of Chine.
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- Publication Date:2015.
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- Publisher(s):Atlantic Books Ltd
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1782398376, 9781782398370
- oclc:ocn913562127
- LC Classification:HN752
- Dewey Decimal:303.5
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Introduction; Introduction to the 2003 edition: Chinese Whispers; Part I: The Exiles; Chapter 1: Exile from Tiananmen Square; Chapter 2: Waiting for the Messiah; Chapter 3: Stars of Arizona; Chapter 4: Mr. Wei Goes to Washington; Chapter 5: China in Cyberspace; Part II: Greater China; Chapter 1: Chinese Disneyland; Chapter 2: Not China; Chapter 3: The Last Colony; Part III: The Motherland; Chapter 1: Frontier Zones; Chapter 2: Roads to Bethlehem; Chapter 3: The View from Lhasa; Chapter 4: A Deer Is a Deer; Acknowledgements.
Glossary of NamesNotes; Index.
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