Slow Train to Democracy
Subtitle: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 To 1979
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781925984309
Subjects: China, history
Description: This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century. The book interweaves personal encounters with records of the democracy movement in Shanghai, revealing a vast outpouring of grievances by ordinary people at a time of dramatic social change.