China in Ten Words

Name: China in Ten Words
Brand: Duckworth
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ISBN 9780715654903 Published 16 March 2023

£10.99

A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words.

People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua – widely regarded as one of China’s greatest living writers – tells powerful personal stories of the Chinese experience from the Cultural Revolution to the 2010s. With wit, insight and courage, he presents a refreshingly candid vision of the ‘Chinese miracle’ and its consequences, and a unique perspective on one of the world’s least understood nations.

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780715654903
Published: 16 March 2023
Pages: 240
Duration
Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
Genre: Memoir and Biography
Imprint: Duckworth

Reviews

‘A brilliant memoir of China… Throughout this beautifully narrated, carefully analytical and at times personally courageous book, Yu shows the dark side of China’s economic “miracle”

Guardian

'Caustic and difficult to forget, China in Ten Words is a people’s eye view of a world in which the people have little place'

The Times

'Gripping… it astounds me that Yu Hua has not already joined Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo and a growing number of other outspoken intellectuals behind bars'

Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review

About the author

Yu Hua

Yu Hua is the author of four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2002, he became the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Award. To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the past decade’s ten most influential books in China by Wen Hui Bao, the largest newspaper in Shanghai. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.

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