Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China

Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China

In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prizeâ‚¬"winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless faÂ§ade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375719196
Color Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate 2005-03-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375719196

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