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Author Chen, Huiqin, 1931- author.

Title Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Chen, Huiqin, 1931-
Jiading Qu (Shanghai, China) -- Social life and customs.
Jiading Qu (Shanghai, China) -- Biography.
China -- Rural conditions.
China.
Rural conditions.
China -- Social life and customs -- 1949-
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1949-
Subject China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Biography.
China -- History -- 1949- -- Biography.
History.
Social change -- China -- History.
Social change.
Women -- China -- Biography.
Women.
Women peasants -- China -- Biography.
Women peasants.
Chronological Term Since 1912
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Chen, Shehong, 1954- author.
Other Form: Print version: Chen, Huiqin, 1931- Daughter of good fortune 9780295994710 (OCoLC)907630708
ISBN 9780295806020 (electronic book)
0295806028 (electronic book)
9780295994710
0295994711
9780295994925
0295994924