Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir /
Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780295806020
Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Social change--History.--China
Women--China--Biography.
Women peasants--China--Biography.
Electronic Books.
DS778 / .D384 2015
Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780295806020
Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Social change--History.--China
Women--China--Biography.
Women peasants--China--Biography.
Electronic Books.
DS778 / .D384 2015