Title: Slow Train to Democracy
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.
Subjects: China, history, Diaries, History, Australians, Women, Australian students, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Manners and customs