Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is a collection of personal stories and sobering analysis which puts this wrong to right. Topics encompass underage prostitution to the crackdown on religion and features some of the first-ever eyewitness accounts from Chinese dissidents and their families. Challenging China offers rare glimpses of the country's ongoing political turmoil as well as hope in the rising resistance.
Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is a collection of personal stories and sobering analysis which puts this wrong to right. Topics encompass underage prostitution to the crackdown on religion and features some of the first-ever eyewitness accounts from Chinese dissidents and their families. Challenging China offers rare glimpses of the country's ongoing political turmoil as well as hope in the rising resistance.
Sharon Hom is the executive director of Human Rights in China
(HRIC).
Stacy Mosher was Human Rights in China's communications director
and the editor of HRIC's journal, China Rights Forum, from 2002 to
2007.
"A diverse, compelling look at contemporary life in China as
American companies flock to its promising market." —Booklist
"Anyone who would understand life in modern China needs Challenging
China. . . . The unique struggles of the everyday Chinese person,
both urban and rural, are documented here as nowhere else." —The
Midwest Book Review
Hom and Mosher, both associated with Human Rights in China (HRIC), founded by Chinese scientists and scholars to promote a human rights agenda in their country, present 27 short essays, interviews, and reports from dissidents, activists, and journalists. These form a mosaic that challenges the image of middle-class professionals in brassy Shanghai and stately Beijing successfully leading their country into global consumerism and mass consumption. Instead, we see abandoned migrants, exploited coal miners, prostitution, imprisoned priests, persecuted Falun Gong members, and incompetence. Recommended for larger libraries. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
"A diverse, compelling look at contemporary life in China as
American companies flock to its promising market."
-Booklist
"Anyone who would understand life in modern China needs
Challenging China. . . . The unique struggles of the
everyday Chinese person, both urban and rural, are documented here
as nowhere else." -The Midwest Book Review
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