Private Revolutions - Coming of Age in a New China - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya , who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. It is about June , who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. It is about Siyue , ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. And it is about Sam , who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets.With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.>

Product details

• Authors: Yuan Yang, Yang Yuan Yang
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2024
• EAN: 9781526655899
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-5589-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 162 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, economic growth, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Ethical Issues: Censorship, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, Political activism / Political engagement