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.
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Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Social change--History.--China Women--China--Biography. Women peasants--China--Biography.