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OverviewDaughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and lived through her village's relocation to make way for economic development. Her family's story of urbanization is representative of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chen Huiqin , Shehong Chen , Delia DavinPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780295994925ISBN 10: 0295994924 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 April 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviewsChen Huiqin's memoir, Daughter of Good Fortune, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century. * Twentieth-Century China * This book offers invaluable insights into the social history of rural China from a peasant perspective. Indeed, it reflects China's history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and does so in a much more nuanced way than other Chinese memoirs available on the Western book market. * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China * A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother's narrative. . . She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China. -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs * """A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother’s narrative... She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China."" -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs * ""This book offers invaluable insights into the social history of rural China from a peasant perspective. Indeed, it reflects China’s history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and does so in a much more nuanced way than other Chinese memoirs available on the Western book market."" ""Chen Huiqin’s memoir, Daughter of Good Fortune, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century.""" A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother's narrative. . . She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China. -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs * Author InformationChen 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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