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A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary

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‘A brilliant memoir of China… Throughout this beautifully narrated, carefully analytical and at times personally courageous book, Yu shows the dark side of China’s economic “miracle” Guardian


'Caustic and difficult to forget, China in Ten Words is a people’s eye view of a world in which the people have little place' The Times


'Gripping… it astounds me that Yu Hua has not already joined Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo and a growing number of other outspoken intellectuals behind bars' Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review

China in Ten Words

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      Publisher Duckworth Books
      Published 16 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9780715654903
      978-0715654903
      ISBN-10 071565490X
      Also in:
      Biography Autobiography: historical, political and military Memoirs History Asian history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary

      Trade Review

      ‘A brilliant memoir of China… Throughout this beautifully narrated, carefully analytical and at times personally courageous book, Yu shows the dark side of China’s economic “miracle” Guardian


      'Caustic and difficult to forget, China in Ten Words is a people’s eye view of a world in which the people have little place' The Times


      'Gripping… it astounds me that Yu Hua has not already joined Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo and a growing number of other outspoken intellectuals behind bars' Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review

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