Description: The sixteen stories collected in this book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.
Brief description: B. Michael Frolic is Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto.
Review Quotes: Often touching and sometimes funny, rich in anecdotes... it's a book about coping and surviving, about wangling and finagling and getting on in the revolution... these painstakingly recorded narratives are the most telling bits of self-expression from Mao's China that we have had.-- "New York Times"