Bad Elements. Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing.
New York. Random House. (c. 2001). Stock ID #149504 "What does it mean to be Chinese? Few questions in history have been as fateful. 'Bad Elements' is the result of Ian Buruma's five years of travels throughout the Chinese-speaking world observing the varying groups competing for a right to define its answer. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149504.
xxv + 367pp, index, notes, glossary of names, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy.
From the diaspora of exiles in the West, to Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, to factions within the People's Republic itself, Buruma comes to terms with the range of dissident communities competing to shape China's future in their own image." (Publisher's description).
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