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Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
Tide Players The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China Author:Jianying Zha In Tide Players, acclaimed author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming today?s China. In a half-dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, Tide Players captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world?s fastest-growing economy. — Zha?s vivid cast of characters includes an un... more »likely couple who teamed up to become the country?s leading real-estate moguls; a gifted chameleon who transformed himself from Mao?s favorite “barefoot doctor? during the Cultural Revolution to a publishing maverick; and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as “a counterrevolutionary criminal.? Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China?s top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha?s own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party.
Zha?s insightful insider-outsider portraits garnered nationwide acclaim, as they offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before.« less