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Students and Teachers of the New China
Thirteen Interviews
Madelyn Holmes

ISBN 978-0-7864-3288-2
14 photos, bibliography, index
207pp. softcover 2008

Description
In this collection of interviews with students and teachers in Hangzhou, China, the reader meets a student at Zhejiang university, majoring in English and studying Japanese and Italian; a teacher who spent his childhood as a "little Red Guard" of the Cultural Revolution and went on to study in England; a young girl who dreams of princesses and romance, and another who wants to be a backpacker when she grows up; and more. Ranging in age from 7 to 52, the thirteen interviewees represent a cross-section of Chinese culture and experience, with various levels of social status, education, and economic standing. Their words, supplemented by the author’s detailed descriptions of their surroundings and daily activities, offer a fresh perspective on life in present-day China.

About the Author
Women’s historian Madelyn Holmes has written for The Christian Science Monitor and The Geographical Magazine. A recent visiting professor of English at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, she lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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