Bibliograph

Daughter of good fortune, a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir, Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

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Daughter of good fortune, a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir, Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Daughter of good fortune

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

892701120

Responsibility statement

Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

Sub title

a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir

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

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