A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.
It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor.
It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs.
It is about Siyue, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong.
And it is about Sam, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets.
With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.
| ISBN: | 9781526655899 |
| Publication date: | 9th May 2024 |
| Author: | Yuan Yang |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Circus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Primary Genre | History |
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A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.
It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor.
It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs.
It is about Siyue, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong.
And it is about Sam, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets.
With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.
Private Revolutions features in the following genres: History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Ethical issues: censorship, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Political activism / Political engagement, Economic growth
Private Revolutions is available in Paperback, Hardback
Private Revolutions was written by Yuan Yang and published by Bloomsbury Circus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Private Revolutions has 320 pages
£19.80
