{"product_id":"private-revolutions-four-women-face-chinas-new-social-order-hardcover","title":"Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuan Yang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Riveting . . . a powerful snapshot of four young Chinese women attempting to assert control over the direction of their lives.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary.\" --\u003ci\u003eBritish \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers--women born during China's turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe product of seven years of intimate, in-depth reporting, this transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy. June and Siyue are among the few in their villages to graduate high school. Each makes her way to Beijing, June as a young professional and Siyue an entrepreneur. Like Siyue, Leiya lives with her grandparents in their village while her parents send money home; yearning for a different life than those of the women she sees around her, Leiya soon joins her parents in Shenzhen as an underage factory worker. Born to an urban middle-class family, Sam is outraged when her eyes are opened the poor treatment of workers, and becomes a labor activist, increasingly under threat by the authorities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the women grapple with government policies that threaten their businesses, their children's access to education, their choice of where to make a home, and, in Sam's case, their lives, a vivid, damning, and urgent picture emerges of the previously unseen human cost of China's rising economic tide--and the courage and perseverance of those caught in the swell.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuan Yang\u003c\/b\u003e is a campaigner and former journalist standing for parliamentary selection in the Labour Party. She is a former columnist and Europe-China correspondent at the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the cofounder of the charity Rethinking Economics, which campaigns for a more diverse and realistic economics curriculum. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and has a master's in economics from the London School of Economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 9.29 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52609255964954,"sku":"9780593493908","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/5604\/6618\/files\/3LwhXSiA3C9780593493908.webp?v=1785354435","url":"https:\/\/j-s-five-and-dime.myshopify.com\/products\/private-revolutions-four-women-face-chinas-new-social-order-hardcover","provider":"J \u0026 S Five and Dime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}