{"product_id":"tide-players-the-movers-and-shakers-of-a-rising-china-9781595586209","title":"Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China","description":"In \u003ci\u003eTide Players, \u003c\/i\u003e acclaimed New Yorker contributor and author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, \u003ci\u003eTide Players\u003c\/i\u003e captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world's fastest-growing economy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZha's vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely couple who teamed up to become the country's leading real-estate moguls; a gifted chameleon who transformed himself from Mao's favorite \"barefoot doctor\" during the Cultural Revolution to a publishing maverick; and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as \"a counter-revolutionary criminal.\" Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China's top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha's own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply engaging, lucid, and poignant, Zha's insightful \"insider-outsider\" portraits offer a picture of a China that few Western readers have seen before. \u003ci\u003eTide Players\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand today's China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJianying Zha\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, media critic, and China representative of the India China Institute, The New School University, New York. She is the author of one book in English, \u003ci\u003eChina Pop\u003c\/i\u003e, and five books in Chinese: three collections of fiction and two nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Eighties\u003c\/i\u003e, an award-winning cultural retrospective on 1980s China. She has published widely in both Chinese and English, including the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDushu\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWanxiang\u003c\/i\u003e. She received her BA from Peking University, MA from the University of South Carolina, and M.Phil from Columbia University. She lives in Beijing and New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855890354450,"sku":"9781595586209","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_71b5b232-bd97-494f-a5d5-a98436d4d7d7.jpg?v=1737487789","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tide-players-the-movers-and-shakers-of-a-rising-china-9781595586209","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}