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China in one village : the story of one town and the changing world / Liang Hong ; translated by Emily Goedde.
Van Pelt Library DS796.H43 H6613 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liang, Hong, 1973- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Zhong guo zai liang zhuang. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Liangzhuang Cun (Dengzhou Shi, Henan Sheng, China)--In literature.
- Liangzhuang Cun (Dengzhou Shi, Henan Sheng, China).
- Liangzhuang Cun (Dengzhou Shi, Henan Sheng, China)--Social life and customs.
- Hebei Sheng (China)--Rural conditions.
- Hebei Sheng (China).
- Hebei Sheng (China)--Social life and customs.
- Peasants--Henan Sheng--Liangzhuang Cun--Social conditions.
- Peasants--Henan Sheng--Liangzhuang Cun--Economic conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Rural conditions.
- China--Hebei Sheng.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- China in 1 village
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- "An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China -- told through the microcosm of one small town. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang's by turns moving and shocking account became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. Across China, many saw in Liang's remarkable and vivid interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own families, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed observer, one family, and one village." -- Book jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Where Is Liang Village?
- Return to Rang County
- Lost
- The Past
- Life's Mirror
- ch. Two Where Ruins Flourish
- Ruins
- Three Zhang Deep in Level Ground
- Black Sludge
- Chrysanthemum Riverbank
- The River's End
- ch. Three Save the Children
- The Wang Boy
- Aunt Zhi
- Grandma Wu
- Liang Village Elementary
- ch. Four The Youth Who've Left
- Yizhi
- Juxiu
- Chunmei
- Yi
- Afterlife
- ch. Five Runtu Grows Up
- Qingli
- Kunsheng
- Lumpy Ginger
- Qingdao
- ch. Six Rural Politics Under Attack
- Politics
- The Former Branch Secretary
- The Current Village Secretary
- The County Committee Secretary
- ch. Seven Trials and Tribulations of the "New Morality"
- Grandpa Ming
- Linglan
- Old Daoyi
- Huan
- Qiaoyu
- Aunt Zhao
- ch. Eight Where Has My Hometown Gone?
- Swamp
- The Forgotten
- New Life
- Cultural Teahouses
- Goodbye, Hometown!.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781839765568
- 1839765569
- 9781839761775
- 1839761776
- OCLC:
- 1241244595
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