Return To A Chinese Village
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Twenty years after his landmark visit to Liu Ling, a remote village in northern China's Shaanxi province, Jan Myrdal — Sweden's most celebrated and controversial social critic — returns to witness how the tides of revolution, collectivisation, and reform have reshaped the lives of ordinary Chinese peasants. Return to a Chinese Village chronicles this reunion with unflinching honesty, presenting the voices of farmers, women, and local cadres in their own words, building a vivid mosaic of rural Chinese life caught between tradition and the relentless pressure of socialist modernity. A worthy successor to the critically acclaimed Report from a Chinese Village, this work stands as a landmark of immersive, first-person reportage — a genre Myrdal practically defined for a Western readership hungry to understand Maoist China. His style is sparse yet deeply humanising, refusing ideological simplification in favour of granular, lived detail. With a foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury, one of America's foremost authorities on the Soviet and Chinese worlds, the book arrives with considerable intellectual authority — leaving the reader to ask whether the revolution truly delivered on its promises to the people who bore its greatest cost.
Author: Jan Myrdal
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Twenty years after his landmark visit to Liu Ling, a remote village in northern China's Shaanxi province, Jan Myrdal — Sweden's most celebrated and controversial social critic — returns to witness how the tides of revolution, collectivisation, and reform have reshaped the lives of ordinary Chinese peasants. Return to a Chinese Village chronicles this reunion with unflinching honesty, presenting the voices of farmers, women, and local cadres in their own words, building a vivid mosaic of rural Chinese life caught between tradition and the relentless pressure of socialist modernity. A worthy successor to the critically acclaimed Report from a Chinese Village, this work stands as a landmark of immersive, first-person reportage — a genre Myrdal practically defined for a Western readership hungry to understand Maoist China. His style is sparse yet deeply humanising, refusing ideological simplification in favour of granular, lived detail. With a foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury, one of America's foremost authorities on the Soviet and Chinese worlds, the book arrives with considerable intellectual authority — leaving the reader to ask whether the revolution truly delivered on its promises to the people who bore its greatest cost.