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Chen Guidi (陳桂棣; born November 1942) is a Chinese writer from
Huaiyuan Huaiyuan County (Postal: Hweiyuen; ) is a county in the north of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Bengbu Bengbu () is a city in northern Anhui Province, China. Its population was 3,296,408 registered residents at the 20 ...
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 Wu Chuntao () is a Chinese author and journalist best known for co-authoring the award-winning ''Will the Boat Sink the Water'' (also known as ''A Survey of Chinese Peasants'') with her husband, Chen Guidi. Born into a peasant family in rural Huna ...
(born 1963) was published in January 2004 but banned by the
Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...
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 Intern ...
. 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
1942 births Chinese non-fiction writers Living people People's Republic of China writers People from Bengbu Writers from Anhui 21st-century Chinese writers {{China-writer-stub