Meeting the Author Night

Wild Grass: China's Revolution From Below

 

Speaker: Ian Johnson
Date: 5 May 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15pm - 9:00pm
Venue: 1/F, New Wing, Main Library, HKU
Language: English

 

About the Books

Wild Grass: China's Revolution From Below

In Wild Grass Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant legal clerk are the unlikely heroes of these stories, private citizens cast by unexpected circumstances into surprising roles.
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Quotes:
'A gripping tale' Washington Post

'a captivating and an important study of what is happening on the ground in China today' The News Tribune

'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary Supplement

 

About the Speaker

Ian Johnson first went to China in 1984 and later lived there for seven years as the Beijing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on China. He is currently the Journal's Berlin Bureau Chief.