Paper tiger
Subtitle: inside the real China
By: Xu Zhiyuan ; translated from the Chinese by Michelle Deeter and Nicky Harman
Contributors: Deeter, Michelle, translator; Harman, Nicky, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781781859780; 9781781859797
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Economic conditions; History
Other titles: Inside the real China
Description: In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is taking place, from Beijing's Silicon district to a cruise down the Three Gorges; he profiles China's dissidents, including Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng; and explores lesser-known stories of scandals that rocked China but which most people outside that country did not hear about - and which shed troubling light on China's dark heart. Xu Zhiyuan understands his homeland in a way no foreign correspondent ever could. PAPER TIGER is a unique insider's view of China that is measured and brave, ambitious in scope and deeply personal.
Notes: "This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN's PEN Translates programme, supported by Arts Council England.  English PEN exists to promote literature and our understanding of it, to uphold writers' freedoms around the world, to campaign against persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and to promote the friendly cooperation of writers and the free exchange of ideas. www.englishpen.org."

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Chinese.