Read Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

Rob Schmitz

4.9/5 (16488 ratings)

Description:A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same nameMarketplace's Rob Schmitz moved to Shanghai in 2010. To gain perspective on China's new reality, he interviewed the ordinary people who lived and worked beside him. He spoke to shop owners, young professionals, beggars, and countless others about their everyday experiences, their troubled histories, and the hopes that fuel them. Schmitz forged deep relationships with the diverse array of people who make up China’s most vibrant city, their stories connected by a single street that runs through the heart of Shanghai.At a time when president Xi Jinping has launched a political agenda entitled "The Chinese Dream" to guide the country's 1.4 billion people, Street of Eternal Happiness sheds light upon the dreams of individual Chinese along a single street in the nation’s largest city. A humorous and at times heartrending journey through the static, mixed messages the Western world is fed about the planet's most populous nation, Schmitz treats readers to recurring characters that illuminate the distinct generations of 21st-century China. Each memorable character's story adds another layer of humanity and texture to modern China, and these portraits merge with Schmitz's personal discoveries through his work as a foreign correspondent. The result is an intimate, surprising, involving portrait of contemporary China that dispenses with the tired stereotypes of a country we think we know.From the Hardcover edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road. To get started finding Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0553418092

Description: A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same nameMarketplace's Rob Schmitz moved to Shanghai in 2010. To gain perspective on China's new reality, he interviewed the ordinary people who lived and worked beside him. He spoke to shop owners, young professionals, beggars, and countless others about their everyday experiences, their troubled histories, and the hopes that fuel them. Schmitz forged deep relationships with the diverse array of people who make up China’s most vibrant city, their stories connected by a single street that runs through the heart of Shanghai.At a time when president Xi Jinping has launched a political agenda entitled "The Chinese Dream" to guide the country's 1.4 billion people, Street of Eternal Happiness sheds light upon the dreams of individual Chinese along a single street in the nation’s largest city. A humorous and at times heartrending journey through the static, mixed messages the Western world is fed about the planet's most populous nation, Schmitz treats readers to recurring characters that illuminate the distinct generations of 21st-century China. Each memorable character's story adds another layer of humanity and texture to modern China, and these portraits merge with Schmitz's personal discoveries through his work as a foreign correspondent. The result is an intimate, surprising, involving portrait of contemporary China that dispenses with the tired stereotypes of a country we think we know.From the Hardcover edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road. To get started finding Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

More Books

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz (2016-05-05)

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz (2016-05-05)

The Art of DreamWorks The Wild Robot (The Art of DreamWorks Animation)

The Art of DreamWorks The Wild Robot (The Art of DreamWorks Animation)

長樂路：上海一條馬路上的中國夢

長樂路：上海一條馬路上的中國夢

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy (Dover Books On Music: Composers)

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy (Dover Books On Music: Composers)

Impossible is Nothing: China's Theater of Consumerism

Impossible is Nothing: China's Theater of Consumerism

Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel

Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel

For Us and for Our Salvation: A Pastoral Theology to Cope with These Strange Times

For Us and for Our Salvation: A Pastoral Theology to Cope with These Strange Times