Bajo La Mirada del Dragón Despierto / Under the Gaze of the Awakened Dragon [Spanish]

By Mavi Doñate

Mavi Do?ate, corresponsal de RTVE en Pek?n, nos ofrece un libro imprescindible para entender la transformaci?n del mundo global.

«Bajo la mirada del drag?n despierto es tan solo una de mis cr?nicas, contada en primera persona, sobre la cobertura period?stica que jam?s habr?a querido hacer, pero que, de seguro, ha sido y ser? la m?s importante de mi carrera .

China est? lejos. Es lo primero que aprende un periodista destinado en un extremo del mundo al que nunca hemos prestado demasiada atenci?n. Cuando Mavi Do?ate lleg? a Pek?n en el verano de 2015 con el v?rtigo anidado en el est?mago, cumpli? un sue?o que la hab?a acompa?ado desde ni?a: ser corresponsal. Lo que no pod?a imaginar entonces es que estaba a punto de protagonizar una de las etapas de mayor intensidad informativa de este primer tramo de siglo.

Mavi Do?ate posee un don innato, mezcla de intuici?n y sutileza, para contar historias. Su relato personal de los seis a?os que vivi? en el gigante asi?tico, elaborado a partir de los recuerdos y las voces que quedaron fuera de la informaci?n diaria, nos ofrece un valioso retrato de la China actual. Estas p?ginas recorren los contrastes de un pa?s en constante reinvenci?n y nos llevan de la pol?tica internacional a la vida cotidiana; de la modernidad sin freno a las tradiciones m?s arraigadas; del bullicio en las calles por las celebraciones del A?o Nuevo al silencio de los peores d?as de la pandemia, y nos recuerdan que, durante d?cadas, hemos vivido de espaldas a ese drag?n milenario que esperaba su momento para despertar.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Mavi Do?ate, RTVE correspondent in Beijing, brings us an essential book to understand the transformation of the global world.

"Under the Gaze of the Awakened Dragon is but one of my chronicles, told in first person, about the media coverage I would never have wanted to do, but that surely has been and will remain the most important in my career."

China is far away. It is the first thing a journalist learns when stationed in a corner of the world nobody pays much attention to. When Mavi Do?ate arrived in Beijing in the summer of 2015 feeling the vertigo nesting in her stomach, she was fulfilling a dream she'd had since childhood: being a correspondent. What she couldn't imagine then was that she was about to star in one of the most intense media times in the first half of this century.

Mavi Do?ate has an innate gift--half intuition, half subtlety--to tell stories. Her personal tale of the six years she lived in the Asian juggernaut, crafted after the memories and voices left out of the daily news, offers a valuable recount of China today. These pages explore the contrasts in a country constantly reinventing itself, taking us from international politics to everyday life, from unrestrained modernity to deep-rooted traditions, from the bustle of the streets in New Year's Eve to the silence during the worst days of the pandemic, reminding us that, for decades, we have lived with our backs to this ancient dragon, biding its time to reawaken.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8401026164
• ISBN13: 9788401026164
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"