To Get Rich Is Glorious: China In The Eighties
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At the dawn of China's great transformation, one of America's foremost China scholars chronicles the seismic shift from Maoist austerity to the dizzying pursuit of prosperity that would reshape the world's most populous nation. Orville Schell immerses the reader in the streets, factories, and farms of 1980s China, capturing the raw energy of a society unleashed after decades of ideological rigidity — a people suddenly permitted, even encouraged, to desire, to consume, and to compete. The book presents vivid, ground-level dispatches that illuminate the human cost and exhilaration of Deng Xiaoping's radical economic reforms, weaving together the personal and the political with a journalist's precision. Schell's narrative style is at once reportorial and deeply humanistic, grounding sweeping historical forces in the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens navigating an extraordinary moment in history. His work stands as an essential document of a pivotal decade — a period whose contradictions and ambitions still echo in the China of today. For anyone seeking to understand how the world's next superpower found its appetite, this account remains as urgent and revelatory as the era it captures.
Author: Orville Schell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the dawn of China's great transformation, one of America's foremost China scholars chronicles the seismic shift from Maoist austerity to the dizzying pursuit of prosperity that would reshape the world's most populous nation. Orville Schell immerses the reader in the streets, factories, and farms of 1980s China, capturing the raw energy of a society unleashed after decades of ideological rigidity — a people suddenly permitted, even encouraged, to desire, to consume, and to compete. The book presents vivid, ground-level dispatches that illuminate the human cost and exhilaration of Deng Xiaoping's radical economic reforms, weaving together the personal and the political with a journalist's precision. Schell's narrative style is at once reportorial and deeply humanistic, grounding sweeping historical forces in the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens navigating an extraordinary moment in history. His work stands as an essential document of a pivotal decade — a period whose contradictions and ambitions still echo in the China of today. For anyone seeking to understand how the world's next superpower found its appetite, this account remains as urgent and revelatory as the era it captures.