Chinese Characters
Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land
An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a growing car culture by trying to convince people not to buy cars. And a 90-year-old woman remembers how the oldest neighborhoods of her city used to be. These are the exciting and saddening, humorous and confusing stories of utterly ordinary people who are living through China's extraordinary transformations. The immense variety in the lives of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95413-7
- EAN: 9780520954137
- Produktnummer: 21596169
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 305 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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