Will the Boat Sink the Water?
Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged…
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing.
They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?
The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of paricular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.
Will the Boat Sink the Water?
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
Sink the Belgrano
Sink the Bismarck!
The Boat Cookbook
The Sink House
The Real Boat
"The Open Boat
Rock the Boat
The Will
Das Boot The Boat
Boat in the Evening
The Donkey and the Boat
The Boat Race Mystery