Jianying Zha: Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers

Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers


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In Tide Players, acclaimed New Yorker contributor and author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles,Tide Players captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world’s fastest-growing economy. Zha’s vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely couple who teamed up to become the country’s leading real-estate moguls; a gifted chameleon who transformed himself from Mao’s favorite barefoot doctor” during the Cultural Revolution to a publishing maverick; and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as a counter-revolutionary criminal.” Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China’s top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha’s own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party. Deeply engaging, lucid, and poignant, Zha’s insightful insider-outsider” portraits offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before.Tide Players is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand today’s China.


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Author: Jianying Zha
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 26 May 2011
Publisher: The New Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781595586209
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