GUIDI, Chen & CHUNTAO, Wu: Will The Boat Sink The Water? The Life of China's Peasants. New York, PublicAffairs, 2006. Translated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket, 229 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Peasantry-China / China-Rural Conditions / Rural Development-China. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Light edgewear to the top extremity of dust wrapper. Otherwise a copy in first-rate condition will all pages clean. An important work of reportage regarding rural conditions in today's China – and banned by the Chinese government as the work was critical of its policies. The book challenges the notion of China's so-called “economic miracle” and how it has left behind the country's impovrished peasantry. ISBN: 1586483587