Dan Ling, a patriotic young engineer eager to help build a new China, falls afoul of the authorities and spends 17 years as a political prisoner. Rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping came to power, Dan returns to work with unflagging determination to help provide a good life for himself and his people after enduring prison, work camps and work farms, and the primitive life of the social outcast breaking new ground on the frozen northern frontier. Lings personal story is interwoven with glimpses of rural and urban life from the 1950s to the 1970s as China fought to make the wrenching leap from a feudalistic to a modern society. Ancient practices alternate with breath-taking and misguided experimentation as the common man is called upon to stride boldly into the unknown but no doubt glorious future. Scenes of naivety, brutality, generosity and pettiness, personal bonds and vendettas, illustrate how peasants, workers and intellectuals survived in the evolving Communist system. This is an expose written without rancor, and a heartening story of faith in man's ability to progress.
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عنوان
Engineering Communist China.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
0875862403
نام شخص به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Ling, Dan,1933 or 1934-
موضوع مستند نشده
Ling, Dan,1933 or 1934-
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
East Asia.
موضوع مستند نشده
History & Archaeology.
موضوع مستند نشده
HISTORY.
موضوع مستند نشده
Politics and government
موضوع مستند نشده
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
China, Politics and government, 1949-
موضوع مستند نشده
China.
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
7
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
HIS-- 008000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
B
ويراست
22
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
DS777
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75
نشانه اثر
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S855
2003eb
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