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"A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month to give evidence to the 'period police' that she wasn't pregnant. In the oppressive routine of guarded compound and political meetings, Zhang's disillusionment with 'The Glorious Cause' drove her to study English, which strengthened her intellectual independence from bright, western style clothes to organizing the largest demonstration by Nanjing workers in support of Tiananmen Square Protest in 1989. By narrating the changes in her own life, Zhang chronicles the momentous shift in China's economic policy: her factory, still an ICBM manufacturer, won the bid to cast a giant bronze Buddha as the country went crazy for profit. Written in English, 'Socialism Is Great!' is a testament to Zhang' personal triumphs over the controlled existence that was supposed to be her destiny."--Provided by publisher.
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Students, Biography, Political activity, History, Economic conditionsPeople
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Socialism is great: a worker's memoir of the new China
2008, University of Western Australia Press
in English
0980296552 9780980296556
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