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"Socialism is great!" : a worker's memoir of the new China / Lijia Zhang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2009Edition: 1st Anchor books editionDescription: 363 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307472199
  • 0307472191
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 951.058092 23/swe
Contents:
[Inheritance -- The weight of adulthood -- Masters of the nation -- Raw rice has been cooked -- The liming empire -- Spring outing -- Seize the moment -- The long hair drama -- Weijia -- Would-be model worker -- Quiet, please, comrades -- Sacred mountain -- Red rock -- Fortress besieged -- Journey to the north -- Falling back into the well -- Home at war -- Missiles and misty poems -- A tool of struggle -- The english corner -- Clouds and rain -- An unsettling time -- Party passport -- The phoenix feather -- A city on the sea -- Jasmine -- Storm -- The third party -- The incident in the park -- Begging for happiness -- Troubled smile -- Fish and bear paw -- Unwanted joy -- The ocean beckons -- Leniency to those who confess.].
Summary: "With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to an organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant miniature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution, as the country transformed itself from being a nation one of stark repression to a one with a vibrant, capitalist economy"--Publisher's description.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Atlas & Co. Publishers, New York, in 2008--T.p. verso.

[Inheritance -- The weight of adulthood -- Masters of the nation -- Raw rice has been cooked -- The liming empire -- Spring outing -- Seize the moment -- The long hair drama -- Weijia -- Would-be model worker -- Quiet, please, comrades -- Sacred mountain -- Red rock -- Fortress besieged -- Journey to the north -- Falling back into the well -- Home at war -- Missiles and misty poems -- A tool of struggle -- The english corner -- Clouds and rain -- An unsettling time -- Party passport -- The phoenix feather -- A city on the sea -- Jasmine -- Storm -- The third party -- The incident in the park -- Begging for happiness -- Troubled smile -- Fish and bear paw -- Unwanted joy -- The ocean beckons -- Leniency to those who confess.].

"With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to an organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant miniature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution, as the country transformed itself from being a nation one of stark repression to a one with a vibrant, capitalist economy"--Publisher's description.