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A million truths : a decade in China
Miljoona totuutta. English
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"First as a teacher and then as a Finnish foreign correspondent living in China, author Linda Jakobson describes the changes that have been taking place over the past ten years. A result of hundred...
"First as a teacher and then as a Finnish foreign correspondent living in China, author Linda Jakobson describes the changes that have been taking place over the past ten years. A result of hundreds of interviews with Chinese of all ages and of all ranks, this personal, wide-reaching, and intelligent book speaks on several topics with some startling conclusions."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Linda Jakobson
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- English
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- New York : M. Evans, [1998]
- ©1998
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- xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780871318732, 0871318733
- OCLC
- ocm39182111
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-330) and index.
- Introduction - Ten Chinese Years: It's Not Easy Being a Godmother and Journalist -- Ch. 1. Returning to my Chinese Roots: Society Works through the "Back Door" -- Ch. 2. The Closed World of a Work Unit: Changes Have Been Mostly Materialistic -- Ch. 3. Red Youth: "Mao Is Part of the People's Subconscious" -- Ch. 4. Tiananmen's Spark of Hope: Chinese Journalists Stoking the Fire -- Ch. 5. A Peasant Woman's Hard Lot: "Bring a Little Brother after You" -- Ch. 6. The Battle Against Despotism: "There Is No Justice In China" -- Ch. 7. Optimists and Individualists: "We Learn to Lie as Kids" -- Ch. 8. The South is a World of its Own: "A Good Communist Is a Rich Man" -- Ch. 9. A Labyrinth of Ideas and Beliefs: Let Your Qi-Energy Flow Freely -- Ch. 10. Jumbled Misunderstandings: "Everyone Wants China to Become Strong" -- Ch. 11. America is no Longer Heaven on Earth: What to Do about Taiwan? -- Ch. 12. The Legacy of Deng Xiaoping: "The Government No Longer Meddles in People's Lives"