Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers

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China is one of the world's most rapidly changing cultural and economic landscapes which is being transformed from the inside by a new generation of savvy and inspired individuals. Zha collects nuanced and sharply etched profiles of these movers and shakers, capturing both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world's fastest growing economy through a vivid cast of characters. Deeply engaging, lucid and poignant, Zha's insightful insider-outsider portraits offer a view of China that few have seen outside of the country.

Jianying Zha is a writer, media critic, and China representative of the India China Institute, The New School University, New York. She is the author of one book in English, China Pop, and five books in Chinese: three collections of fiction and two nonfiction books, including The Eighties, an award-winning cultural retrospective on 1980s China. She has published widely in both Chinese and English, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Dushu, and Wanxiang. She received her BA from Peking University, MA from the University of South Carolina, and M.Phil from Columbia University. She lives in Beijing and New York.

"Zha beautifully combines the hard-earned expertise of an insider with the moral candor of an outsider. In exploring China's defining struggles . . . [she] illuminate[s] the shadows in between, with empathy and courage." -Evan Osnos, The New Yorker "If you want to understand the astonishing developments in China's contemporary cultural life . . . there could be no surer or more entertaining guide than Zha." K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University "An engaging, comprehensible cross-section of the personalities and cultural concerns rising with China's ascent." Kirkus "No one who writes in English about contemporary China is more thoroughly bilingual and bicultural than Jianying Zha. She truly 'gets it.'" Perry Link, author of Evening Chats in Beijing