Chen Guidi (陳桂棣; born November 1942) is a Chinese writer from Huaiyuan county,

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

. The book ''

A Survey of the Chinese Peasants ''Will the Boat Sink the Water?:The Life of China's Peasants,'' is a 2006 non-fiction book authored by husband and wife team Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. It is the English translation of ''Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha'' (中国农民调查, "An Investi ...

'' (中国农民调查 / 中國農民調查 Zhōngguó Nóngmín Diàochá) which he co-wrote with his wife Wu Chuntao (born 1963) was published in January 2004 but banned by the

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in March of that year. It nevertheless won the 2004

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. The award was initiated by Lettre Inter ...

. It has been retitled and reprinted in English as

Will the Boat Sink the Water ''Will the Boat Sink the Water?:The Life of China's Peasants,'' is a 2006 non-fiction book authored by husband and wife team Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. It is the English translation of ''Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha'' (中国农民调查, "An Inves ...

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Asia Times Jan 22, 2005
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