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      By Osnos, Evan, 1976-
       2014., Adult, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 951.06 O834a   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals--fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture--consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth? Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail"--From publisher.
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      By Lary, Diana
       2010., Cambridge University Press Call No: 940.53 L336t    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: New approaches to Asian history.Summary Note: "The Chinese peoples' experience of war during the Second World War, as it is known in the West, was one of suffering and stoicism in the face of dreadful conditions. China's War of Resistance began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion and ended in 1945 after eight long years. Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's war and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. Her focus is on families torn apart, men, women, and children left homeless and struck down by disease and famine. It is also a story of courage and survival. By 1945, the fabric of China's society had been utterly transformed, and entirely new social categories had emerged. As the author suggests in a new interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949"--
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      By Caldwell, Bo
       2010., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: Fic Cal   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Story of a young couple whose faith and marriage is put to the test when they are missionaries in revolutionary China. Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents.
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      By Fong, Mei
       2016., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 363.9 F673o    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "The world's largest experiment in social engineering -- how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world. When the Chinese Communist Party leadership enacted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China ends the policy after more than three decades, it has a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society. She explores its human impact, traveling across China to meet the people who live with its consequences. Their stories reveal a dystopian reality: unauthorized second children not recognized by the state, only children supporting aging parents and grandparents on their own, villages teeming with ineligible bachelors, and an ungoverned adoption market stretching across the globe. Whether China's "Little Emperor" cohort will make for an entitled or risk-averse generation; how China will manage to support itself when one in every four people is over sixty-five years old; and how much the one-child policy may end up hindering China's growth. One Child offers a nuanced and candid report from the extremes of family planning.