China
Subtitle: getting rich first : a modern social history
By: Duncan Hewitt
Edition: 1st Pegasus books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781605980614
Subjects: Social change; Social conditions
Other titles: Getting rich first; China, a modern social history
Description: Former BBC correspondent Duncan Hewitt examines twenty-first-century Chinese society, characterized by soaring car ownership, private schooling, and rural migration, describing the life of the average Chinese citizen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-454).
Table of contents: title: Cities in motion; title: Shanghai between old and new; title: Aspiration nation; title: Farewell to welfare?; title: A half-open media; title: The 'me' generation; title: Unsentimental education; title: The great proletarian sexual revolution; title: Floating people; title: The land they left behind; title: Consumers and citizens; title: Culture shock; title: Faith, hope and disillusionment.