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'Beautiful, immersive . . . Told through the lives of four extraordinarily resilient and idealistic Chinese women' JULIA LOVELL

'A book of delights. Yuan Yang shows us the real China in all its complexity' JOHN SIMPSON

'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN

This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures.

It is about ...

The gap between high and low educated has a long history, since the Re-naissance in the 16th century, and she still grows. She creates discrimination and prejudice, and is accompanied by a gap in income.

In the 20th century there appeared to be a rebirth of humanism, in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s, but that faded away when the ‘babyboomers’ joined the game of the established order.

The gap is fatal, not only for the low educated, but for society as a whole, including the high ...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth

‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei

In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.

As people lose their faith in old institutions and ...

Fusing memoir and cultural history, this is an essential exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.

A brief and accessible text that provides undergraduate sociological theory students with the tools they need to think theoretically about their social world