The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future - Rilegato

Lemos, Gerard

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ISBN 10: 0300169248 ISBN 13: 9780300169249

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality. Preparing this book Gerard Lemos asked hundreds of Chinese men and women living in Chongqing, an industrial mega-city, about their wishes and fears. The lives they describe expose the myth of China's harmonious society. Hundreds of millions of everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social and health problems as well as personal, family, and financial anxieties—while they watch their communities and traditions being destroyed.

Lemos investigates a China beyond the foreigners' beaten track. This is a revealing account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives, from education to health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. Taken together, the stories of these men and women bring to light a broken society, one whose people are frustrated, angry, sad, and often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings and analyzes how China's community and social problems threaten the ambitious nation's hopes for a prosperous and cohesive future. Lemos explains why protests will continue and a divided and self-serving leadership will not make people's dreams come true.

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Recensione:

'The End of the Chinese Dream shows what can be discovered despite official obstruction...Lemos's snapshots reveal people traumatised by rapid change and the loss of community and family ties, deeply anxious about the insecurities of old age and resentful of flourishing corruption and ineffective justice.' --Isabel Hilton, New Statesman

'Lemos shows, with the weight of [his] impressive research, why the China of today cannot yet lay claim to [being] an exemplar for the rest of the world, and a real challenge to the United States.' --Rana Mitter, Daily Telegraph

'This is a welcome and highly readable account of the travails wrought on China's people by history's most powerful plutocracy.' --Frank Dikotter, The Sunday Times

L'autore:

Gerard Lemos, a social policy expert, was a visiting professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University between 2006 and 2010 and chaired the board of the British Council from 2008 to 2010. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300169248
• ISBN 13: 9780300169249
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 301