01373nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_13367 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195149408 9780195149401 eng 951 J109 Becker, Jasper The Jasper Becker New York Free Press 2000 xi, 464 p. ill., maps 24 cm In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where most visitors do not reach. Here he is at his most candid, reporting from all over the country: from tiny, crowded homes in the swollen cities of the southeast rim to a vast, secret network of thousands of defense bunkers in the northwest. He exposes Chinese society in all of its layers: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; the twenty grades of Party apparatchicks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of Party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule China; China; View all subjects Jasper Becker Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh