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Wild Grass by Ian Johnson
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless fa ade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China.Ian Johnson is a Reader of English at St Andrews University. He is the author of The Medieval English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology (2013) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume II, The Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375421860 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375421866 |
| Title | Wild Grass |
| Author | Ian Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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