{"product_id":"private-revolutions-coming-of-age-in-a-new-china","title":"Private Revolutions : Coming of Age in a New China","description":"\u003cb\u003e'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' \u003ci\u003eVOGUE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Private Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eSunday Times, Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; BBC Highlight for 2024*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.\u003c\/b\u003eIt is about \u003cb\u003eLeiya\u003c\/b\u003e, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. It is about \u003cb\u003eJune\u003c\/b\u003e, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. It is about \u003cb\u003eSiyue\u003c\/b\u003e, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. And it is about \u003cb\u003eSam\u003c\/b\u003e, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets. With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43583519326405,"sku":"","price":39.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Private_20Revolutions.jpg?v=1716637230","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/private-revolutions-coming-of-age-in-a-new-china","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}