China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization. China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China''s people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century. We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, from across this vast country - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary ''double-gun woman'', Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, ''will help our future understand our past''.

• | Author: Xinran, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2009
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099501480
• | ISBN-10: 0099501481