03053cam a2200361 4500 567896414 TxAuBib 20220701120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781595586988 1595586989 B004MYFUZU Amazon 5a023a71-37c3-47dc-9aba-963b0549d69c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 535343 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zha, Jianying. Tide Players [Libby] : The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China. The New Press, 2011. China. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 290kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>In Tide Players, acclaimed New Yorker contributor and author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a 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.<br /> Zha's vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely 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 counter-revolutionary 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.<br /> Deeply engaging, lucid, and poignant, Zha's insightful "insider-outsider" portraits offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before. Tide Players is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand today's China.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-01 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/5A0/23A/71/TidePlayers9781595586988.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5A023A71-37C3-47DC-9ABA-963B0549D69C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/5A0/23A/71/TidePlayers9781595586988.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5A023A71-37C3-47DC-9ABA-963B0549D69C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/5A0/23A/71/TidePlayers9781595586988.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5A023A71-37C3-47DC-9ABA-963B0549D69C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)