查建英: Public Enemy

This is a global citizen's observation record of China spanning over forty years, involving profound reflections on politics, economy, culture, education, and many other aspects. It is diverse and meticulous, fair and objective, with beautiful prose and deep thought. As a writer and critic with significant achievements and influence in both Chinese and English fields, Zha Jianying has always focused on freedom of thought, historical figures, literary trends, social movements, and civil resistance, from her brother who formed a party to seek democracy, to German businessman Zhang Dazhong who adhered to principles, to barefoot capitalist Sun Lizhe who wholeheartedly helped others, to complex and shrewd public servant Wang Meng, to cultural interviews with Ah Cheng and Chen Danqing, educational reforms at Peking University, Peking University figures Ji Xianlin and Liang Zuo, and even her polemical analysis of Xi Jinping and her on-site report on June Fourth. She has witnessed everything from the Xidan Democracy Wall, June Fourth in 1989, the formation of a party in 1998, to the White Paper Movement and the Sitong Bridge incident under the Xi Jinping regime, depicting a series of thrilling and thought-provoking canvases of China's transformation. The author holds these thinkers, actors, and promoters dedicated to China's transformation in high esteem, writing with emotion, yet capable of maintaining fairness and objectivity at a higher dimension. She is particularly adept at examining epochal changes from a grand historical perspective, making this arguably the most anticipated text on China's political evolution and cultural脉动. This is also the most complete and comprehensive publication without censorship or deletions, to be read now and cherished in the future, well worth owning.

查建英

Born in Beijing in 1959, under the pen name Zhaxi Duo, she was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1977, enrolled in the spring of 1978, and went to the University of South Carolina in the United States in the fall of 1981, where she received her master's degree in English in 1984. In 1986, she earned a second master's degree in comparative literature at Columbia University in New York. In 1987, she returned to China and subsequently wrote and published a series of novellas and short stories, and once worked for The New York Times Beijing bureau.

After the June Fourth Incident in 1989, Zha Jianying returned to the United States. After 1992, she successively lived in New York, Chicago, Houston, Hong Kong, Florida, and Beijing, writing columns for Hong Kong's "The Nineties Monthly" and Voice of America, while also publishing non-fiction long-form essays, novels, and cultural commentaries in both Chinese and English. Her works have appeared in publications such as "The New Yorker," "The New York Times," "Dushu," "Wanxiang," "Sight and Sound," "ChinaFile," and "China Heritage." She has received a Guggenheim writing fellowship and has long served at the India China Institute in New York, stating that her favorite cities are Beijing, Hong Kong, and New York.

Her major works include: Chinese: "Interviews from the Eighties," "New Decameron: Freedom Is Not Free," "Shuo Dong Dao Xi" (Speaking East and West), "Ice River Under the Jungle," "Go to America, Go to America!", "Stories of Studying in America"; English: "China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture," "Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China," "China's Heart of Darkness: Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping," "The Habit of Hoping," "Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival."