xxi, 457 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Duncan Hewitt, ex-BBC China corespondent, presents a readable and fascinating look at the rapid change that is transforming Chinese society from the point of view of the people who are living through it
Cities in motion -- Shanghai between old and new -- Aspiration nation -- Farewell to welfare? -- A half-open media -- The 'me' generation -- Unsentimental education -- The great proletarian sexual revolution -- Floating people -- The land they left behind -- Consumers and citizens -- Culture shock -- Faith, hope and disillusionment
