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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Binyan Liu , Perry LinkPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.577kg ISBN: 9780253347787ISBN 10: 0253347785 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 29 June 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsEditor's Note An Interview with Liu Binyan Perry Link Listen Carefully to the Voice of the People Translated by Kyna Rubin; People or Monsters? Translated by James V. Feinerman; Warning Translated by Madelyn Ross; The Fifth Man in the Overcoat Translated by John S. Rohsenow; Sound is Better than Silence Translated by Michael S. Duke; The Second Kind of Loyalty Translated By Richard W. Bodman; Report on a Void Investigation Translated by Perry Link; An Unnatural Disaster Translated by Perry Link; A Great Leap Backward? Translated by Perry Link ContributorsReviews... These historic pieces illuminate China's present social dyspepsia, beyond all differences between socialism and capitalism.... Highly recommended. All readers; all levels. --Choice In People or Monsters? Liu develops a very perceptive analysis of the communist system where the monopoly of the Party allows cadres to establish networks through which they enact absolute power, ending up in absolute corruption... By republishing this anthology, Perry Link helps attract attention to this writer who played such an important role in the 1980s and who, to this day, has not found a successor in China. --China Quarterly .. . These historic pieces illuminate China's present social dyspepsia, beyond all differences between socialism and capitalism.... Highly recommended. Allreaders; all levels. -- Choice In People or Monsters? Liu develops a very perceptive analysis of the communist system where the monopoly of the Party allows cadres to establish networks through which they enact absolute power, ending up in absolute corruption... By republishing this anthology, Perry Link helps attract attention to this writer who played such an important role in the 1980s and who, to this day, has not found a successor in China. --China Quarterly ... These historic pieces illuminate China's present social dyspepsia, beyond all differences between socialism and capitalism.... Highly recommended. All readers; all levels. --Choice <p>. .. These historic pieces illuminate China's present social dyspepsia, beyond all differences between socialism and capitalism.... Highly recommended. Allreaders; all levels. -- Choice . . . These historic pieces illuminate China's present social dyspepsia, beyond all differences between socialism and capitalism.... Highly recommended. Allreaders; all levels. -- Choice Author InformationLiu Binyan left school after ninth grade for lack of tuition money. He continued to read, taught himself Russian, joined the Communist Party underground in 1943, and eventually emerged as 20th-century China's leading investigative journalist. Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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