Title: A million truths : a decade in China /
Authors: Jakobson, Linda
Publisher: M. Evans,
Year: 1998
Subjects: China Social conditions; China Description and travel.; China Social conditions
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Returning to my Chinese roots -- The closed world of a work unit -- Red youth -- Tiananmen's spark of hope -- A peasant woman's hard lot -- The battle against despotism -- Optimists and individualists -- The south is a world of its own -- A labyrinth of ideas and beliefs -- Jumbled misunderstandings -- American is no longer heaven on earth: What to do about Taiwan? -- The legacy of Deng Xiaoping.