Chen Guidi is a Chinese

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 writer from Huaiyuan county, Anhui

Anhui

Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...

. The book A Survey of the Chinese Peasants (中国农民调查 / 中國農民調查 Zhōngguó Nóngmín Diàochá) which he co-wrote with his wife Wu Chuntao (1963-) was published in January 2004 but banned by the Communist Party in March of that year. It nevertheless won the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award

Lettre Ulysses Award

The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage has been given annually since 2003 for the best texts in the genre of literary reportage, which must have been first published during the previous two years...

. It has been retitled and reprinted in English as Will the Boat Sink the Water

Will the Boat Sink the Water

Will the Boat Sink the Water, subtitled The Life of China's Peasants and originally published as Zhongguo nongmin diaocha: An Investigation of Chinese Peasants, Will the Boat Sink the Water, subtitled The Life of China's Peasants and originally published as Zhongguo nongmin diaocha: An...

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