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Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir - Daughter of Good Fortune
Chen Huiqin
Daughter 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.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Commendation Quotes: "Daughter of Good Fortune" illustrates the immense changes rural people have experienced since the founding of the PRC through today. It really is a worthy sequel to the classic account of peasant life in pre-communist China, "Daughter of Han."Commendation Quotes: This is a smoothly written and richly detailed memoir that reflects the changes in peasant life in the Shanghai suburbs from the 1930s to the present. Biographical Note: 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."
Contributor Bio: Davin, Delia Davin is Head of Department and Reader in Chinese Social Studies at the University of Leeds
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 1, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780295994710 |
| Publishers | University of Washington Press |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Chinese - Sex & Gender > Feminine |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 223 × 28 mm · 586 g |
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