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Author | : Chen Guidi |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1586485393 |
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of particular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.
Author | : Pamela Allen |
Publisher | : Picture Puffin |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 9780143501992 |
Besides the sea, on Mr Peffer's place, there lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm sunny morning for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay . . .
Author | : Mark Weakland |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404871446 |
Introduces the concepts of floating and sinking by following a fictional captain on the high seas who wonders why his boat floats and his treasure sinks.
Author | : Guidi Chen |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780732283056 |
This is an expose of the inequality and injustice experienced by 900 million Chinese peasants, as told through a series of dramatic personal narratives that describe the arbitrary violence and powerlessness in the face of colossal corruption and grinding poverty."
Author | : Chen Guidi |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781586484187 |
Depicts life among the nine hundred million peasants who inhabit the rural areas of China, revealing the destitute conditions under which they live and the reasons why they have been excluded from China's economic revolution.
Author | : Lynn Salem |
Publisher | : Seedling Publications |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2004-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780845443910 |
Readers will be encouraged to actively test items to see if they sink or float.
Author | : Steven Callahan |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0547526563 |
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.
Author | : Watt Key |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374306540 |
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
Author | : Jennifer Boothroyd |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications TM |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1512465135 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A rock sinks in the water. A hot air balloon floats in the air. Many objects float and sink. But what makes them move this way? And how do people use floating and sinking in their lives? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Author | : Farley Mowat |
Publisher | : Boston : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly. How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.