{"product_id":"yuan-yang-private-revolutions-2024-hardback","title":"Yuan Yang: Private Revolutions [2024] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times, Observer, \u003c\/i\u003eWaterstones and BBC Highlight for 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A portrait of the country through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' Peter Frankopan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is about \u003cb\u003eLeiya\u003c\/b\u003e, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. It is about \u003cb\u003eJune\u003c\/b\u003e, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. It is about \u003cb\u003eSiyue\u003c\/b\u003e, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. And it is about \u003cb\u003eSam\u003c\/b\u003e, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.","brand":"Yang, Yuan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48057721717075,"sku":"9781526655899","price":26.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/yang-yuan-yuan-yang-private-revolutions-2024-hardback-9781526655899-1147302851.jpg?v=1742077293","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/yuan-yang-private-revolutions-2024-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}