China Witness Voices from a Silent Generation
by XinranEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-04-20
Publisher(s): Anchor
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Summary
China Witness offers a remarkable group of eyewitness accounts that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the experiences of the Chinese of the Chinese who lived through them.
Author Biography
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and moved to London in 1997 to write for The Guardian. She is author of The Good Women of China, a seminal book about the lives of Chinese women, and Sky Burial. Her charity, The Mothers’ Bridge of Love, was founded to help disadvantaged Chinese children and to build a bridge of understanding between the West and China.
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Table of Contents
| Map of China and the Journey | p. viii |
| List of Illustrations | p. x |
| Glossary and Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Yao Popo, or the Medicine Woman of Xingyi | p. 13 |
| Two Generations of the Lin Family: The Curse of a Legend | p. 25 |
| New Discoveries in Xinjiang, the World's Biggest Prison | p. 39 |
| On the Road, Interlude 1: Interview with a North-Western Taxi Driver | p. 77 |
| Pioneers of China's Oil: A Distinguished Husband and Wife | p. 85 |
| Acrobat: From Counter-Revolutionary's Daughter to National Medal Winner | p. 133 |
| On the Road, Interlude 2: Talking to a Chinese Colleague about Tibet, Folk Customs, Tiger Stoves and the Chinese Jews | p. 161 |
| Tea Houses and News Singers: Three Thousand Years of Anecdotes and Wonders | p. 173 |
| Carrying on a Craft Tradition: The Qin Huai Lantern-Makers | p. 201 |
| Across Mountain and Grassland: A Witness to the Long March | p. 231 |
| Savouring Her Blessings after Trials and Tribulations: The Woman General Born in America | p. 259 |
| Interlude 3: Love Letters | p. 307 |
| On the Read, Interlude 4: Reflections Between the Lines | p. 327 |
| The Policeman: A Cop Who Entered the Police Force As the Peoples Republic Was Founded | p. 329 |
| The Shoe-Mender Mother: 28 Years Spent out in All Weathers | p. 373 |
| On the Road, Interlude 5: A Squall at the 4 May Memorial | p. 393 |
| Afterword: Images of My Motherland | p. 399 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 419 |
| Chinese Assistants: What China Witness Meant to Them | p. 423 |
| Index | p. 425 |
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