Lijia Zhang, Socialism is Great! Atlas and Co.Read about all 10 books on the list.
Journalist and freelance writer Zhang narrates the boredom and hilarity of her life as a munitions factory worker in Nanjing, where she becomes infatuated with an aloof young man partly as a means to escape her boredom, and her eventual leadership of worker protests in 1989.
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