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Daughter of good fortune : a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin.
Van Pelt Library DS778.C5262 A3 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Huiqin, 1931- author.
- Chen, Shehong, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chen, Huiqin, 1931-.
- Chen, Huiqin.
- Social change.
- History.
- Women peasants.
- China--History--1949---Biography.
- China.
- China--History--Republic, 1912-1949--Biography.
- Women peasants--China--Biography.
- Women--China--Biography.
- Women.
- China--Social life and customs--1949-.
- Manners and customs.
- China--Rural conditions.
- Rural conditions.
- Social change--China--History.
- Jiading Qu (Shanghai, China)--Biography.
- Jiading Qu (Shanghai, China).
- Jiading Qu (Shanghai, China)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 348 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Ancestral home
- War and revolution
- Benefiting from the new marriage law
- Rushing into collective life
- The great leap forward
- "No time for meals all year round"
- Years of ordeal
- Reaching beyond peasant life
- Changes in the family
- Farewell to collective life
- Rural customs and urban life
- A house-purchasing frenzy
- Crossing borders and leaving the ancestral village
- Between the living and the dead
- All our children are "plump seeds"
- Return to ancestral land
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295994710
- 0295994711
- 9780295994925
- 0295994924
- OCLC:
- 892701120
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