description: In "Wild Grass" Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant legal clerk are the unlikely heroes of these stories, private citizens cast by unexpected circumstances into surprising roles.
language: English
title: Wild Grass : China's Revolt from Below
titlecomplete: Wild Grass : China's Revolt from Below
genres: Asia, China, Politics, Biography, Cultural, Travel, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 339
publisher: Penguin Books