China in ten Words

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Call Number: 985.185 Yu, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Asia & Oceania / China
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	985.185 Yu	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Asia & Oceania / China	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

880-03 People -- Leader -- Reading -- Writing -- Lu Xun -- Revolution -- Disparity -- Grassroots -- Copycat -- Bamboozle.
Uses a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into China's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations, and ubiquitous practices of deception.
"From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic and social transformation."--Dust jacket.

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Not what I was expecting, but it was a good surprise submitted by nemiller on July 19, 2021, 9:38pm Based on the description, I thought it was going to be more of an analysis of modern (well, modern from 10 years ago) China. It ended up being more like, part Cultural-Revolution-for-Beginners, part memoir-with-political-context.

I listened to the audiobook on overdrive, but I would actually recommend reading the printed version instead. The reader, Don Hagen, reads the whole book with the same detached, faintly-amused tone, which kind of flattened the stories.