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| Title: | Little Emperors
: A Year with the Future of China |
| Author: | JoAnn Dionne |
| ISBN: | 1550027565 : 9781550027563 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 150x230mm |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Weight: | .412 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | China: Area/regional studies |
Much has been made of how the New China has become an economic juggernaut in today's world while basic liberties and freedoms have remained constricted. We know where the ageing leadership is taking China, but what of the very young. The author has taught in a Chinese elementary school and has discovered the world's oldest country throwing itself headlong into the future with all the problems that unlimited progress can bring in its wake. She met many young people who live in that future. Chinese culture as seen through the eyes of a North American, this book provides a funny often poignant glimpse into a nation undergoing rapid transformation.
Scatter to Flat Root; Lunch; Not Free to Go; A Walk on White Cloud Mountain; Ladybugs, Dragonflies, and Building Cranes; Bad China Days; Things Appear, Things Disappear; A Revolution ... of Sorts; Near Death on the Li Jiang, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation; The Tide of Change; A Little of the Everyday; Tea and Moon Cakes; Shanghai is a Verb; A Bowl Full of Stars; Cantonese Lessons; The Golden Arches; Fashion Faux Pas; How the Gweilo Ruined Christmas; Double Happiness; Ghosts from the East Sea; Deng Xiaoping vs. the NBA; Sunny Days; A Year 191; The Red Tent; The Accident; Chinada!; The Hong Kong Communist Party; The Old Man of China; The Strength of Bamboo; The Future; Epilogue.
