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Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Buruma, Ian
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9780679781363
- Book Title
- Bad Elements : Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Human Rights, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Asia / China, World / Asian
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China's future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneuvers by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state? These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Moving from the quarrelsome exile communities of the U. S. to Singapore and Hong Kong and from persecuted Christians to Internet "hacktivists," Buruma captures an entire spectrum of opposition to the orthodoxies of the Communist Party. He explores its historical antecedents its conflicting notions of freedom and the paradoxical mix of courage and cussedness that inspires its members. Panoramic and intimate, disturbing and inspiring, Bad Elements is a profound meditation on the themes of national identity and political struggle.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679781366
ISBN-13
9780679781363
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2298014
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bad Elements : Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Human Rights, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Asia / China, World / Asian
Publication Year
2003
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
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Ds779.26
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"Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller. . . . Bad Elements is the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents." -- The New York Review of Books "[Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia. . . . A brilliant examination . . . impressively comprehensive." --The Wall Street Journal "[Buruma's] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion....A vivid history of repression and resistance." --The New York Times Book Review "An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there...Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile." -- The Washington Post Book World, "Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller. . . . Bad Elements is the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents." -- The New York Review of Books "[Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia. . . . A brilliant examination . . . impressively comprehensive." -The Wall Street Journal "[Buruma's] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion....A vivid history of repression and resistance." -The New York Times Book Review "An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there...Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile." - The Washington Post Book World, "Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller. . . .Bad Elementsis the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents." --The New York Review of Books "[Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia. . . . A brilliant examination . . . impressively comprehensive."-The Wall Street Journal "[Buruma's] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion....A vivid history of repression and resistance."-The New York Times Book Review "An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there...Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile." -The Washington Post Book World
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951.05/7
Dewey Edition
21
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