Written by people who, as second class citizens in Maoist China, went to the countryside to redeem their original sin, Exiled Pilgrims tells the story of the authors struggle for physical and spiritual survival against tremendous odds.

Product Description: Drawing on an abundance of primary sources as well as on the author's extensive personal experience in the Chinese school system, this book examines the evolution of non-governmental schools in China between 1895 and 1995. The author begins with an overview of private education in pre-modern China, and discusses the growth of modern private schools in the past century as part of the Chinese people's struggle for national survival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides an alternative analytical approach to the study of China's political changes since the Cultural Revolution, which treats those changes as a transition from totalitarianism to authoritarianism. While depicting important political-economic events, it focuses on the changes in such major sociopolitical factors as the people's attitude toward the regime, government policy, the ruling methods of the regime, and the interrelationships among them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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