The Shanghai Free Taxi - Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

Zusatztext Enlightening ... [an] admirably sincere attempt to understand a nation and its people Informationen zum Autor Frank Langfitt spent a decade as a reporter in China, first with the BALTIMORE SUN in Beijing and later as NPR's Shanghai correspondent from 2011 to 2016. Langfitt graduated from Princeton and was Nieman fellow at Harvard. He now serves as NPR's correspondent in London and lives in Surrey with his wife, Julie, a veterinarian, and their two children. Before becoming a journalist, Langfitt drove a taxi in Philadelphia. Klappentext Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime Zusammenfassung Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime

Product details

• Authors: Frank Langfitt
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781474612333
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1233-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, International Economics, Political control and freedoms