China in Ten Words
- ISBN-10
- 0307379353
- ISBN-13
- 9780307379351
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-08
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Authors
- Hua Yu, Yu Hua
Description
A first work of non-fiction available in English by the James Joyce Foundation Award-winning Chinese author of Brothers is presented through a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into the nation's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations and ubiquitous practices of deception.
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