Daughter of good fortune : a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin ; design by Thomas Eykemans.

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Main Authors: Huiqin, Chen (Author), Chen, Shehong (Author)
Other Authors: Davin, Delia (Author of introduction, etc.), Eykemans, Thomas (Designer)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2015.
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Table of 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.