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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation : questo il titolo originale che, pubblicato nel 2008, approda in Italia grazie a Longanesi. Declinato al femminile, quel Witness , genera in me un' ingenua aspettativa. Così credo di apprestarmi a leggere un’inchiesta di carattere sì storico ma anche socia Leggi tutto

Xinran is a gentle, non-pushy reporter, but her politeness gets the old folks to open up more than they would for their families. She is trying to record what the revolutionary generation really thinks, and what they are proud of. Mostly they are poor people, who've faced enormous hardships and abus Leggi tutto

Any book on China describing the 'dark years' between the 1940s and 1990s is welcome especially if it avoids the rich, the powerful and the elite and deals instead with the lived experiance of common folk. Xinran has ferreted out people from a variety of fields across the face of China and discussed Leggi tutto

I sought to read this book out of a great interest over the modern history of China from the standpoint of ordinary people from all walks of life. I appreciate the author's effort to tour China to document true but publicly-unavailable stories, yet she has annoyed me in many occasions for interrupti Leggi tutto

This is a very good book that gives some excellent insights into both current China from the perspective of both the author who is in her middle years and now lives mostly in the UK and of the people that she interviews who are mostly people in their later years, most of whom were revolutionaries wh Leggi tutto