"In terms of its richness of data, this is one of the best
ethnographies I have read about any locale anywhere. It is also
exemplary in its novel and creative synthesis of literary analysis
and more conventional social science-oriented anthropology. . . .
The book has a consistent focus, both disturbing and riveting, on
the ways that pain, loss, and social upheaval are woven into
people's attempts to reconstitute new lives over some fifty years
of rapid social change."--P. Steven Sangren, author of "Chinese
Sociologics"
"Mueggler writes with uncommon grace, elegance, and charm. . . .
Readers will come away from this book with lasting memories of
various aspects of these peoples' lives--death, hunger, fear, sex,
humor--and with an understanding of their all-too-powerful humanity
as well as their genius for adapting their lives to the
often-changing demands of the communist state."
Robert B. Edgerton, author of "Death or Glory
"A rare work that really gives us a new way of thinking about
what modernity (or one version of it, anyway) means to people who
have had it thrust upon them involuntarily."
Kenneth Pomeranz, author of "The Great Divergence
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