Slow Train to Democracy: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979 - Softcover

McLaren, Anne E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925984303 ISBN 13: 9781925984309

Publisher: Arden, 2021

Synopsis

This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century. The book interweaves personal encounters with records of the democracy movement in Shanghai, revealing a vast outpouring of grievances by ordinary people at a time of dramatic social change.

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About the Author

Anne McLaren is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Asia Institute University of Melbourne where she has taught Chinese language culture gender and human rights since 2000. Born in Sydney she studied Modern and Classical Chinese at the Australian National University where she completed a PhD in 1983. From September 1978 to August 1979 she lived as a student in China most of that time at Shanghai's Fudan University. She is the author of numerous books and studies on Chinese traditional popular culture fiction oral ritual and performance art. Her research has been funded by several awards from the Australian Research Council. In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities for pioneering research in the oral and ritual culture of Chinese women.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arden
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925984303
• ISBN 13: 9781925984309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238