1979-2000 Major Decisions and Events in Shenzhen: A Folk Observation

Author: Chen Hong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is the only book so far about the ups and downs of Shenzhen's two decades of reform from a grassroots perspective. The author spent six years interviewing 154 key decision-makers and witnesses to major events, revealing for the first time the six pivotal moments in Shenzhen's two-decade fate, the truth and hidden aspects of Shenzhen's "Ten Major Turmoils," and the pain and dignity of millions of Shenzheners who lived and died for reform.
Shenzhen is China's and the last Don Quixote. She broke away from thousands of bloated and aging inland cities, defying all alone. She also embodied the bloodied exploration of a nation and a people, showing compassion to the world. The combination of iron will and tenderness, isolation and preferential policies from the central government, made her soar to the pinnacle of glory one moment, and like a nest overturned, vulnerable the next. She was the eye of the storm in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the youthful mentor of China's reform. From the silent tide of 300 million grassroots people quietly and spontaneously changing their identities and destinies, to the wave of a million intellectuals rediscovering themselves by going into business. Shenzhen created the mosting scene in a trembling era.
Today, this young person with the temperament of a poet and the gift of an orator, is gradually fading from the historical stage in the tunnel of time, slowly sinking to the bottom of the long river of history. But her noble and aloof soul sings in our ears every night. The author of this book interviewed 154 key decision-makers and witnesses to major events, revealing for the first time the six pivotal moments in Shenzhen's two-decade fate, the truth and hidden aspects of Shenzhen's "Ten Major Turmoils," and the pain and dignity of millions of Shenzheners who lived and died for reform.