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100 1 $aJohnson, Ian,$d1962 July 27-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003110026
245 10 $aWild grass :$bthree stories of change in modern China /$cIan Johnson.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $aix, 324 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-300) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: One Hundred Battles a Day -- $g1.$tThe Peasant Champion -- $g2.$tDream of a Vanished Capital -- $g3.$tTurning the Wheel.
520 1 $a"In Wild Grass, Ian Johnson recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves fighting oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant legal clerk are the unlikely heroes of these stories, private citizens cast by unexpected circumstances into surprising roles." "As he accompanies them on their journeys through the impenetrable bureaucratic maze of Communist China, vividly depicting village meetings and Beijing police stations, spontaneous protests and secret networks, Johnson reveals the contradiction at the heart of modern China. It is a nation intent on pursuing economic reform, creating an open-market economy, raising living standards, improving education, and giving its citizens more time to travel, to think, and to determine their own lives. But at the same time, it refuses to alter the monopoly of power exercised by the Communist Party, and it willfully - often brutally - suppresses the emerging civil society that exists outside the party. From the humble lives that Johnson shares with us may come the revolution that will change China once and for all."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolitical activists$zChina.
650 0 $aGovernment, Resistance to$zChina.
650 0 $aDissenters$zChina.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zChina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100338
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1976-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
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