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100 1  Lemos, Gerard. 
245 14 The end of the Chinese dream :|bwhy Chinese people fear 
       the future /|cGerard Lemos. 
263    1205 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2012] 
264  4 |c©2012 
300    ix, 301 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-292) and 
       index. 
505 0  Getting nowhere in China -- Chongqing -- Chaos, reform and
       inequality -- The wish tree -- The Chinese dream -- 
       Unhappy families -- Educational pressure, hope and despair
       -- Failing health -- Lifelong financial insecurity -- 
       Exodus from the suffering land -- Losers and their losses 
       -- Trauma without recovery -- The power of the powerless -
       - Plutocrats in the leviathan -- Afterword: What next for 
       China? 
520    "Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and 
       increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life
       in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially 
       approved story is a different reality. Preparing this book
       Gerard Lemos asked hundreds of Chinese men and women 
       living in Chongqing, an industrial mega-city, about their 
       wishes and fears. The lives they describe expose the myth 
       of China's harmonious society. Hundreds of millions of 
       everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social
       and health problems as well as personal, family, and 
       financial anxieties--while they watch their communities 
       and traditions being destroyed.Lemos investigates a China 
       beyond the foreigners' beaten track. This is a revealing 
       account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people 
       regarding all facets of their lives, from education to 
       health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. 
       Taken together, the stories of these men and women bring 
       to light a broken society, one whose people are frustrated,
       angry, sad, and often fearful about the circumstances of 
       their lives. The author considers the implications of 
       these findings and analyzes how China's community and 
       social problems threaten the ambitious nation's hopes for 
       a prosperous and cohesive future. Lemos explains why 
       protests will continue and a divided and self-serving 
       leadership will not make people's dreams come true"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Social change|zChina|zChongqing. 
650  0 Social stability|zChina|zChongqing. 
650  0 National characteristics, Chinese. 
651  0 Chongqing (China)|xSocial conditions|y21st century. 
651  0 Chongqing (China)|xSocial life and customs|y21st century. 
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