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Private Revolutions
Yuan Yang
其他書名
Coming of Age in a New China
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024-05-09
主題Political Science / World / AsianTravel / Asia / East / ChinaBusiness & Economics / Labor / UnionsBusiness & Economics / Women in BusinessHistory / Military / Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSocial Science / Women's StudiesBusiness & Economics / Development / Economic Development
ISBN15266558889781526655882
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jY3sEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year

'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE
'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES
 'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES
'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN

This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.

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.