Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China

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A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years. As a 20-year-old exchange student from Stanford in 1981, Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap F...

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Main Author: Pomfret, John, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Pomfret, John, > 1959-
Nanjing da xue > Alumni and alumnae > Biography.
American students > China > Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) > Biography.
Foreign correspondents > China > Biography.
China > History > 1976-2002 > Biography
China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Biography.
China.
Table of Contents:
  • Warmly welcome you
  • The slap
  • Broken wing
  • Father's lessons
  • Black bricks
  • A meat pie from heaven
  • Bitter love
  • Party animal
  • Outside the gates
  • New street crossing
  • A handful of bran
  • Spiritual pollution
  • Petrified marriage
  • Yin finds yang
  • Crossed paths
  • Show me the money
  • To the barricades
  • Asylum
  • Fishy handshakes
  • Fake foreign devils
  • Killing the chickens
  • White like mother's milk
  • Rice bowl Christians
  • Yes man
  • Homecoming
  • The adman
  • The China price
  • Spiritual civilization
  • Gods and animals
  • Pine on a cliff
  • Endure
  • Crawling home
  • The enthusiasms of high altitude
  • Severe and acute
  • High tides
  • Thugs' revolution
  • My place in the procession
  • Conclusion: The Chinese dream.

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