China witness: voices from a silent generation

China Witness Is The Personal Testimony Of A Generation Whose Stories Have Not Yet Been Told. Here The Grandparents And Great-grandparents Of Today Sum Up In Their Own Words - For The First And Perhaps The Last Time - The Vast Changes That Have Overtaken China's People Over A Century. The Book Is At Once A Journey By The Author Through Time And Place, And A Memorial To Those Who Have Lived Through War And Civil War, Persecution, Invasion, Revolution, Famine, Modernization, Westernization - And Have Survived Into The 21st Century. We Meet Everyday Heroes, Now In Their Seventies, Eighties And Nineties, From Across This Vast Country - A Herb Woman At A Market, Retired Teachers, A Legendary 'double-gun Woman', Red Guards, Oil Pioneers, An Acrobat, A Female General, A Lantern Maker, Taxi Drivers, And More- Those Whose Voices, As Xinran Says, 'will Help Our Future Understand Our Past'.