{"product_id":"2026100007033-secondhand-return-to-a-chinese-village","title":"Return To A Chinese Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty 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.\n\nA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130930766043,"sku":"2026100007033-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c431b063-accd-4d89-affc-b17d127301e1.png?v=1786592595","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007033-secondhand-return-to-a-chinese-village","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}