Chasing the Chinese Dream: Stories from Modern China - Hardcover

Holdstock, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784533734 ISBN 13: 9781784533731

Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric - from the factory-owner, to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities.Chasing the Chinese Dream follows a cast of extraordinary characters: we meet the people getting rich; running factories and buying luxury cars and Louis Vuitton bags. But we also meet those left behind, trapped by a system which forces long hours and no prospects upon them. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this book looks to tell the story of modern China through the people who are living it.

About this title

About the Author:

Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. His writing can be found in Vice, The LA Review of Books, n+1, The Independent, The Dublin Review, Times Literary Supplement, the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He worked for many years under Isabel Hilton at China Dialogue - part of the Guardian environment network. He is the author of China's Forgotten People, a biography of Xinjiang. His first novel, The Casualties, was published in 2015. He writes regularly on China for the London Review of Books.

Review:

"Utterly fascinating from cover to cover" (Midwest Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784533734
• ISBN 13: 9781784533731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272