![]() ![]() In “Copycat,” he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. In “Disparity,” for example, Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular-“people,” “leader,” “reading,” “writing,” “Lu Xun” (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), “disparity,” “revolution,” “grassroots,” “copycat,” and “bamboozle”-China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation. ![]()
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