Chen Huiqin

Daughter of Good Fortune

A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

Chen Huiqin was born in 1931 in Wang Family Village, in Jiading Country near Shanghai, and now lives on her ancestral land. Shehong Chen is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Delia Davin is emeritus professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Woman Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780295994925
• ISBN-10: 0295994924
• Artikelnr.: 41846176

Autorenporträt

Chen Huiqin, a retired peasant and factory worker, lives near Shanghai.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments by Shehong Chen
Introduction by Delia Davin
1. Ancestral Home
2. War and Revolution
3. Benefiting from the New Marriage Law
4. Rushing into Collective Life
5. The Great Leap Forward
6. "No Time for Meals All Year Round"
7. Years of Ordeal
8. Reaching Beyond Peasant Life
9. Changes in the Family
10. Farewell to Collective Life
11. Rural Customs and Urban Life
12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy
13. Crossing Borders and Leaving the Ancestral Village
14. Between the Living and the Dead
15. All Our Children Are "Plump Seeds"
16. Return to Ancestral Land
Glossary
Index