The Chinese by Becker, Jasper

The Chinese

In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures...
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The Chinese by Becker, Jasper

The Chinese

€55,60

The Chinese

€55,60
Author: Jasper Becker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where most visitors do not reach. Here he is at his most candid,
reporting from all over the country: from tiny, crowded homes in the swollen cities of the southeast rim to a vast, secret network of thousands of defense bunkers in the northwest. He exposes Chinese society in all of its layers: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of
businessmen; to local despots; the twenty grades of Party apparatchicks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of Party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.

Becker lets the Chinese speak for themselves, in voices that are rich and moving. He teaches a great deal about the magnitude--and the false face--of China's vaunted economic boom, and further shows the pervasive institutionalized crime that has risen out of economic poverty. In all, Becker reveals
a China very different than our long-held assumptions depict. The Chinese is the hidden story of people of the world's largest nation--a nation so poorly understood and so vital to the future.

Author: Jasper Becker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/25/2002
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.42w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9780195149401

About the Author

Jasper Becker was the resident correspondent in China for the Manchester Guardian from 1985 to 1990. He has since reported on Chinese affairs for BBC World Service, as well as for the Economist, and is now Beijing Bureau Chief for the South China Morning Post. His book Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret
Famine was the winner of the Dutch PIOOM award for human rights.

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