{"product_id":"daughter-of-good-fortune-9780295994710","title":"Daughter of Good Fortune","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother’s narrative. . . She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers invaluable insights into the social history of rural China from a peasant perspective. Indeed, it reflects China’s history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and does so in a much more nuanced way than other Chinese memoirs available on the Western book market.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Nan Nu: Men, Women, \u0026amp; Gender in China *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chen Huiqin’s memoir, \u003ci\u003eDaughter of Good Fortun\u003c\/i\u003ee, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Twentieth-Century China *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments by Shehong Chen\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Delia Davin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Ancestral Home\u003cbr\u003e 2. War and Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 3. Benefiting from the New Marriage Law\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rushing into Collective Life\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Great Leap Forward\u003cbr\u003e 6. “No Time for Meals All Year Round”\u003cbr\u003e 7. Years of Ordeal\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reaching Beyond Peasant Life\u003cbr\u003e 9. Changes in the Family\u003cbr\u003e 10. Farewell to Collective Life\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rural Customs and Urban Life\u003cbr\u003e 12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy\u003cbr\u003e 13. Crossing Borders and Leaving the Ancestral Village\u003cbr\u003e 14. Between the Living and the Dead\u003cbr\u003e 15. All Our Children Are “Plump Seeds”\u003cbr\u003e 16. Return to Ancestral Land\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MV - University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090670580055,"sku":"9780295994710","price":110.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295994710.jpg?v=1762273018","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/daughter-of-good-fortune-9780295994710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}