Research Catalog

Title

The Chinese / Jasper Becker.

Author

Becker, Jasper.

Publication

New York : Free Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xi, 464 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book provides a general introduction to the Chinese, taking the reader on a journey from the poorest, those living in remote mountainous regions, to the most powerful families in the capital. In between it looks at how workers in state-owned enterprises and the new capitalists are navigating the transition from a planned to a market economy, and at who are the winners and losers in the scramble to make this new consumer market yield golden profits."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

China

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-434) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Through the Open Door -- 1. Eating Bitterness -- 2. Local Despots and Peasant Rebels -- 3. Getting Rich is Glorious -- 4. Behind the Walls -- 5. Inside the Zones -- 6. The Iron Rice Bowl -- 7. The Pig that Fears to Become Fat -- 8. The God of Wealth -- 9. Guttering Candles -- 10. Barefoot Doctors and Witch-doctors -- 11. The Stinking Ninth -- 12. Secret Empire -- 13. Tremble and Obey -- 14. The Rule of Law -- 15. Between Heaven and Earth -- Epilogue: Examining the Oracle Bones.

ISBN

0684844125

LCCN

^^^00042167^

OCLC

44131814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library