Chinese Lessons
Subtitle: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: August 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780805076158
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; China - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - China; History / China; China; Personal Memoirs; Alumni and alumnae; American students; Biography; Foreign correspondents; Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng); Nanjing da xue; Anecdotes
Description: A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years. As a 20-year-old exchange student from Stanford in 1981, Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution--and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with some of his classmates. This book is their story and his own. As we watch Pomfret and his classmates begin to make their lives as adults, we see the human cost and triumph of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism.--From publisher description.