Private Revolutions

Coming of Age in a New China

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Beschreibung

As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE<br>'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES<br> 'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES<br> 'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN<br>*A Sunday Times, Observer &amp; BBC Highlight for 2024*<br><br>This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.<br><br>It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. <br>It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. <br>It is about Siyue, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. <br>And it is about Sam, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets.<br> <br> With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526655875

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 128 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK