SuitabookPolitical change and personal experience
People explain how they feel about China’s movement from strict communist government control towards an exciting, unstable “new China”.
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Julia Waterlow - Author
Howard Davies - Author
A broad introduction to China combining people’s perspectives with geography, ethnic diversity, political change and population pressures. Its distinctive angle is connecting national developments with how individuals feel about them.
In this book, people of China explain in their own words how they feel about the changes their country is going through - from the strict government control of communism to the exciting, unstable world of the new China. Meet the different peoples of China: the Han, the Uighurs, the Tibetans and others. Exploore the country's landscapes: the tallest mountains in the world, the beautiful gorges of the Yangzi river, and the breathtaking size of the North China Plain. Find out how China plans to overcome the population problem that led to the old proverb, 'The land is scarce, the people are many', and provide its people with a better standard of living.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA broad introduction to China combining people’s perspectives with geography, ethnic diversity, political change and population pressures. Its distinctive angle is connecting national developments with how individuals feel about them.
People explain how they feel about China’s movement from strict communist government control towards an exciting, unstable “new China”.
The book considers how China plans to address the population problem associated with the saying that land is scarce and people are many.
The book may suit shared reading when you want to compare personal viewpoints with wider facts about place and policy. Pause to ask whose experiences are represented and whose may be missing.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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