Description
This unique work of investigative literary journalism is translated into English for the first time. The Chinese prize winning original sold more than 250,000 copies before it was banned and went on to sell close to ten million copies illegally in China Subsequently, the authors have been harassed in the courts, forced to terminate their employment, and have had their home stoned by a mob-all because they dared to paint a true portrait of the life of China's peasants.
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 feudal system unchanged since the fifteenth century They are the voiceless in modern China.
Chinese journalists Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao returned to Chen's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three year study of how the peasants fared there, asking the question Have the peasants, in whose name the revolution in China was undertaken, been betrayed by Mao and his successors? The result is a captivating narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the that dominate China's villages and counties petty dictators.
ISBN:9781586484187
