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Xinxin, Zhang Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China
Pantheon 1987 0679720561 / 9780679720560 Paperback Good Paperback
Book has edge-rubbing, creasing, and scuffing associated with normal use. Sticker on spine says 'China'. Crease on upper right corner of cover and first few pages. Inside is clean and excellent. From Publishers Weekly: Interviewing people throughout China in 1984, the authors, a journalist and a novelist, have compiled an unprecedented look at the People's Republic. The speakers range from an entrepreneurial street urchin selling popcorn, to a convict, a hippie-type young man hiking and biking around the country and a rehabilitated prostitute. One portrait is of a bookstore manager who earnestly defends the country's policy of controlling what books are sold. In his store, he says, to help guard public morality, when customers purchase a copy of Sex Information and What Newlyweds Need to Know " . . . we also make them take a copy of How to Repair Electrical Appliances." Many of the interviewees are survivors of the Cultural Revolution andare scrambling hard to succeed in China's new climate of materiali Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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