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Overview"""A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society""--" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yuan YangPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Viking Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9780593493908ISBN 10: 0593493907 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 02 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAdvance praise for Private Revolutions: “A portrait of the country through four women who grew up there in the eighties and nineties and refused to accept the life laid out for them. Activists, factory workers, pig farmers turned students: they provide incredible insight into the lives of ordinary Chinese people.” —The Sunday Times Best Books of 2024 “Yang provides a fascinating portrait of womanhood and society in a rapidly evolving—and increasingly repressive—global superpower.” —Waterstones Best Books of 2024 “A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change. A real eye-opener about life in contemporary China.” —Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads “This is a book of delights. Yuan Yang shows us the real China in all its complexity – the rich, detailed, often brutal life of the villages and cities. Anyone who wants to understand what China and the Chinese are like will find great pleasure, and sometimes pain, in reading it.” —John Simpson “Written by one of the most sensitive and acute chroniclers of contemporary China working today, this is a beautiful, immersive, moving account of the country’s whirlwind transformations since the 1990s, told through the lives of four extraordinarily resilient and idealistic Chinese women.” —Julia Lovell, author of Maoism and The Opium War “Private Revolutions has the extraordinary, novelistic power to show how everyday lives on the other side of the world are actually lived that won Behind the Beautiful Forevers a Pulitzer… A landmark work.” —Felix Martin, author of Money Advance Praise for Private Revolutions: “A portrait of the country through four women who grew up there in the eighties and nineties and refused to accept the life laid out for them. Activists, factory workers, pig farmers turned students: they provide incredible insight into the lives of ordinary Chinese people.” —The Sunday Times Best Books of 2024 “Yang provides a fascinating portrait of womanhood and society in a rapidly evolving—and increasingly repressive—global superpower.” —Waterstones Best Books of 2024 “Written by one of the most sensitive and acute chroniclers of contemporary China working today, this is a beautiful, immersive, moving account of the country’s whirlwind transformations since the 1990s, told through the lives of four extraordinarily resilient and idealistic Chinese women.” —Julia Lovell, author of Maoism and The Opium War “Private Revolutions has the extraordinary, novelistic power to show how everyday lives on the other side of the world are actually lived that won Behind the Beautiful Forevers a Pulitzer… A landmark work.” —Felix Martin, author of Money Author InformationYuan Yang is a campaigner and former journalist standing for parliamentary selection in the Labour Party. She is a former columnist and Europe-China correspondent at the Financial Times and the cofounder of the charity Rethinking Economics, which campaigns for a more diverse and realistic economics curriculum. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and has a master’s in economics from the London School of Economics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |