China Witness
Voices from a Silent Generation
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409088431
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
An engaging and affecting book
Economist
An incredibly moving and ambitious collection... There is a great deal of light in this powerful book
Independent
Another excellent book...ambitious
Literary Review
Extraordinary
Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
If you loved Jung Chang's Wild Swans you'll love this book
Image magazine
Remarkable... This book showcases Xinran's rare talent for getting ordinary Chinese to open up... China Witness says as much about contemporary China as it does about the recent past
Geoff Dyer, Financial Times
Right here we see the red lines that many Chinese still draw for themselves in public discourse, or even privately, the boundaries they dare not cross even today. No other style of storytelling could have exhibited them with more clarity or greater rawness
The Times
These stories are often heart-rending, but are recounted in a very self-effacing way by the subjects themselves... [The book] is deeply engaging and focuses almost exclusively on issues and experiences rarely discussed in China or elsewhere. It takes people to places they would not otherwise have been able to go: into the minds of previously silent witnesses... a stunning insight into its [China's] people
Herald
This extraordinary book tells the story of 20th-century China through the voices of ordinary people... The lives of these everyday heroes make gripping reading
The Gloss (Ireland)