Out of Mao's Shadow
The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2008
نویسنده
David Colacciناشر
Tantor Media, Inc.شابک
9781400177509
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Amid all the reports of the New China, Pan tells of another side of China through 10 intersecting profiles that show much despair over the actions of the nation's authoritarian government. There is a documentary filmmaker's quest to record the life of a dissident poet. A retiree determined to record how local victims of the Cultural Revolution died. And others. David Colacci is a capable reader. He carries the material with an even tone, adding emotion when necessary for impact or effect. He adopts slight voice changes for selected characters. It's successful when he quotes official documents, less so with female characters. But because the book has no overarching dramatic line, listeners will need to apply themselves, rather than be compelled. It's easy to stop listening at the end of chapters. R.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Starred review from May 19, 2008
As the Olympics focus the world's attention on China, an array of books examine that burgeoning country from a variety of perspectives.
Out of Mao's Shadow: Stories from the Struggle for China's Soul
Philip P. Pan
. Simon & Schuster
, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3705-2
Ex-Washington Post
Beijing bureau chief Pan focuses these 11 profiles on China's lonely dissidents: a filmmaker documents a Mao-era dissident who wrote a prison manifesto in her own blood; a doctor acclaimed for blowing the whistle on the SARS epidemic is arrested for writing about the Tiananmen Square massacre; an editor tests the party's tolerance for muckraking. These narratives show China's social and political tensions playing out through personal enmities, petty bribery and subtle moral compromises. Pan's stirring reportage shows that, even in China, the individual can make a difference—at a price. B&w photos.
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