China's Vanishing Worlds: Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces (Mit Press)Matthias Messmer, Hsin-Mei Chuang
Gebundene Ausgabe
Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces Gebundenes Buch Chinas Vanishing Worlds is an impressive documentation in images and text of modernizations effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility. The scars of Chinas recent history and the decay of centuries-old traditions are made visible in this volume, but so is the lure and promise of technology and another life for young people. In the next twenty years, an estimated 280 million Chinese villagers will become city dwellers, leaving their ancestral homes in search of urban jobs and opportunities. Chinas Vanishing Worlds offers readers a rare opportunity to glimpse China as it once was, and as it will soon no longer be.
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