Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern ChinaIn 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 façade 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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| Titel | Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China |
| Auteur | Ian Johnson |
| Uitgever | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0307430251, 9780307430250 |
| Lengte | 336 pagina's |
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