| Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China Contributor(s): Johnson, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375719199 ISBN-13: 9780375719196 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless faade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Asian - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 323.040 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.23" W x 8.08" (0.57 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless fa ade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China. |