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Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on China for theWall Street Journal, has found the small pockets of resistance that dot the vast landscape of Chinese society and may become the initial fissures that will someday bring down the seemingly indestructible façade of the Communist Party. InWild Grass, he 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. From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375421866
ISBN-13
9780375421860
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30283047

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Book Title
Wild Grass : Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Author
Ian Johnson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, Political Process / Political Advocacy, World / Asian
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
18 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Jq1516.J64 2004
Reviews
"Ian Johnson's WILD GRASS is a beautifully spare recollection of three ordinary people in the 1990s's who challenged the power of the Communist state in their own Lilliputian way. . . Mr. Johnson is to be commended for his sensitive rendering of his subjects." -- Bruce Gilley, The New York Times "A gripping tale of a few very ordinary people and their extraordinary courage in fighting for their rights against the Communist Party leviathan. . . Johnson's cloak-and-dagger quest to talk to the victims and his taut, perceptive writing make WILD GRASS read in parts like a John Grisham legal thriller." -- Nayan Chandra, Washington Post Book World "Johnson draws intimate portraits of his subjects and exposes the banal motives behind the government's brutal behavior." -- Frank Langfitt, The Baltimore Sun "Johnson is a wonderful storyteller whose narrative style permits readers to join his adventures. When he spends the night in a dark cave, the stale air is pervasive. When he crouches low in the backseat of a car, the intensity is palpable. . . WILD GRASS is a captivating and an important study of what is happening on the ground in China today. By weaving together these three stories, Johnson has written a book that reflects the patchwork of defeats and victories that characterize this changing country." -- Laura W. Geller, Christian Science Monitor "Ian Johnson has written a book about contemporary China that is at once concrete and insightful. By profiling three individuals, he gives us a distinctive lens through which to view the landscape of unresolved contradictions and discontinuities that lie just beneath the surface of China's much vaunted 'economic miracle.'" --Orville Schell, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley "Once in a very great while you open the paper, start to read, and within a few lines know that you're reading a voice apart, a voice luminous with reality -- a writer. That's how I first encountered Ian Johnson and his China. His prose is limpid, his ironies gentle but insistent, and his characters so wily and intrepid that they break your heart. The narrative pace and moral pitch of Johnson's prose put him in a tradition of literary nonfiction that began with Orwell in Catalonia and has given us a small but immensely impressive canon of modern masters. Johnson is one of them." -- Jane Kramer, author of Europeans "In the past decade, China's national narrative has shifted from the epic to the subtle. There have been no earth-shattering events, no remarkable leaders, but the pace of change is almost over-whelming. By focusing on three citizens who test the limits of reform, Johnson captures the detail and subtlety of life in today's China. This is the first foreign reportage that examines in depth the motivations, methods, and results of ordinary Chinese searching for a civil society." -- Peter Hessler, author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-058082
Dewey Decimal
323/.04/0951
Dewey Edition
22

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