On Heaven's Lake: A Year in New China

By Justin Hempson-Jones

While tricycling peasants gossiped about the escaped hammer murderer, Mrs Ho had her home razed in exchange for a job and Mrs Ping’s husband ran off with the noodle seller. Chang Wen plotted vainly to turn himself from a scholar to a businessman, while Lou Da preyed on spoiled youngsters from the countryside. Amongst hawkers, prostitutes, and the sign proclaiming ‘Have a Dog!’ the material girls and boys of the one child generation - the author's students - searched to find their niche in this: Hangzhou, the city of heaven. In a year of China, from the Korean border to the Himalaya, the author met hawking police officers and nationalist tea planters; subversive abbots and pro-democracy communists; drunken sages, indestructible porters, terrorist tour guides. One thing was certain: Change would cease for none of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Justin Hempson-Jones
• Release date: Mar 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458019332

Justin Hempson-Jones

Justin Hempson-Jones is a behavioural scientist specialising in the theory and practice of social influence and behaviour change for defence and security. He formerly worked for New Scotland Yard, the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratories, and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). He now leads the behavioural science research and innovation company, Social Machines.

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