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"""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."""

Chen 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 *

""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."" * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China * ""Chen Huiqin’s memoir, Daughter of Good Fortune, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century."" * Twentieth-Century China *

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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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