基本信息出版社：PublicAffairs
页码：256 页
出版日期：2007年04月
ISBN：1586484419
International Standard Book Number：1586484419
条形码：9781586484415
EAN：9781586484415
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century.

Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties, and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer.

Told principally through four dramatic narratives, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth about its vast population of rural poor.
作者简介 Chen Guidi and his wife Wu Chuntao were born into peasant families. Guidi received the Lu Xun Literature Achievement Award--one of the most important literary prizes in China. Both authors have received awards from the journal Contemporary Age for groundbreaking reportage.
媒体推荐 "A banned book whose publication is compared to a clap of thunder... delves deeply into the rural conundrum that continues to bedevil China's Communist Party leaders"