# China Witness

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- Authors: [Xinran](https://www.bookquiver.com/xue-xinran)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-05-07

## Description

China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century. We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, from across this vast country - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary 'double-gun woman', Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, 'will help our future understand our past'.

## Editions

### China Witness

- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-0738-853-7
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2010-04-20
- Language: en_US

### China Witness

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-148-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2009-05-07
- Language: en_GB