'A gripping account of modern China's transformation- Duncan Hewitt introduces us to the new Chinese - the entrepreneurs and the migrant workers, the ambitious students and the young lovers, the real estate agents and restaurant owners, the performance artists and those who search for new faiths. This is living history written from the inside' - John Gittings, author of The Changing Face of China.
Duncan Hewitt first lived in China in 1986, while studying Chinese at Edinburgh University. He later worked as an editor and translator of Chinese literature in Hong Kong before joining the BBC World Service. He was a BBC correspondent in China from 1997 until 2002, initially in Beijing and later as the corporation's first Shanghai correspondent. He now writes for Newsweek and other publications in Shanghai.
A brilliant insider's account of life in the new China... tender
and often shocking
*Sunday Times*
A lively and human portrait of a society living in extraordinarily
interesting times
*Scotsman*
A perceptive, detailed and entertaining exploration of the tumult
that is modern china
*Times Literary Supplement*
Captivating... A remarkable guide to the faultlines in China
today
*Asian Review of Books*
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