This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the
reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few
Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap
between what specialists understand and the general public believes
has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of
the most powerful emerging player on the global stage. Seeking to
bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars, journalists, and
activists challenge readers to move past the typical images of
China presented by the media and to think about the common problems
shared by China and the United States. In an entirely new set of
essays, they explore such critical issues as environmental
degradation, nationalism, unemployment, film and literature, news
reporting, the Internet, sex tourism, and the costs of the economic
boom to vividly portray the complexity of life in contemporary
China and how surprisingly often it speaks to the American
experience. Contributions by: Bei Dao, Susan D. Blum, Timothy
Cheek, Martin Fackler, John Gittings, Howard Goldblatt, Peter Hays
Gries, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Lionel M. Jensen, Tong Lam, Sylvia
Li-chun Lin, Jonathan Noble, Tim Oakes, David Ownby, Judith
Shapiro, Timothy B. Weston, and Xiao Qiang
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