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"Socialism is great!" : a worker's memoir of the new China by Zhang, Lijia is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month to give evidence to the "period police" that she wasn't pregnant. In the oppressive routine of guarded compounds and political meetings, Zhang's disillusionment with "The Glorious Cause" drove her to study English, which strengthened her intellectual independencefrom bright, western-style clothes, to organizing the largest demonstration by Nanjing workers in support of the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. By narrating the changes in her own life, Zhang chronicles the momentous shift in China's economic policy: her factory, still an ICBM manufacturer, won the bid to cast a giant bronze Buddha as the whole country went mad for profit.

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Author

Zhang, Lijia

Publisher

Atlas & Co : Distributed to the trade by W. W. Norton

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977743377

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.37 / 5 (308 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14