The sixteen stories collected in this book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.
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The sixteen stories collected in this book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0674548469.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 291 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Near Fine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, September 1981. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Text unmarked. Foxing to edges. Spine straight and tight with a readi ng crease. Light edgewear. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 278 pages. "How do we apply Chairman Mao's Thought to get fat pigs? " Squad Leader Ho ( who knew the most about pigs) replied that, according to Chairman Mao, one must investigate the problem fully from all sides, and then integrate pract ice and theory. Ho concluded that the reason for our skinny pigs had to be found in one of three areas: the relationship between the pigs and their na tural environment (excluding man); the relationship between the cadres and the pigs; and the relationship among the pigs themselves. And so the city s lickers, sent down to the countryside for political reeducation, set out to find the Thousand-Dollar Pig, much to the bemusement of the local peasants. The sixteen stories in this collection give firsthand accounts of daily life in 1970s China that show how individuals from all parts of the country led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest. As fresh and original as the individual accounts are, common themes emerge: the sluggishness of an agrarian society in responding to modernization; the painful lack of resources in a poor and gigantic country; the constraints imposed on common people by the bureaucracy; the way in which individuals outwardly support the system and inwardly resist it; the limitations of heavy and conflicting doses of ideology in motivating individuals. But there are also recurrent motifs of economic and social progress: prod.
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Good. USED Good Former Library Paperback Book. It has normal library markings including card holder/reference sticker and library call number on spine. Has school and/or library name blacked out with marker/white blackout labels on page edges, cover and inside. Some cover scuff/indents and bent corners. Some folded/wrinkled pages. Reinforced with white or clear library tape on binding and inside covers.