SuitabookChina
Julia Waterlow, Howard Davies
- Reading
- Read it as a starting point rather than a complete account.
- Themes
- Political change and personal experience: People explain how they feel about China’s movement from strict communist government control towards an exciting, unstable “new China”. The framing presents change as both exciting and unstable, while the people’s viewpoints offer a perspective-based rather than purely institutional account.
- Population, land and living standards: The book considers how China plans to address the population problem associated with the saying that land is scarce and people are many. This appears to be an informational examination of a national problem and proposed responses, rather than evidence of a clearly endorsed solution.
- Worth knowing
- 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.