Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review – an intimate account of how China is changing


by The Guardian

The Guardian— A social and economic revolution observed through the lives of four women in their 30sYuan Yang, the former Financial Times China correspondent, has written an engrossing new book that meticulously reports on a country in the throes of change, using the lives and choices of four women from her own generation as a lens.Leiya, Sam, June and Siyue, born in the late 80s and 90s, all hail from different regions and social classes – but they share the trait of being “unusually accomplished idealists”....

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