Private revolutions : coming of age in a new China
Yang, Yuan2024
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This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. It is about Siyue, ranked second-to-last of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. And it is about Sam, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist, even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets. With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society and, through the telling, something of our own.
Main title:
Private revolutions : coming of age in a new China / Yuan Yang.
Author:
Yang, Yuan, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xxii, 286 pages : map ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526655905978152665590597815266558999781526655905
Dewey class:
305.420951951.05305.42
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
557307
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.42 YAN | Available |
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.42 YAN | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.42 YAN | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.42 YAN | Onloan - Due: 19 Jul 2025 |