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Daughter of good fortune, a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir, Chen Huiqin ; with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

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Daughter of good fortune, a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir, Chen Huiqin ; with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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autobiography

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Daughter of good fortune

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Chen Huiqin ; with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin

Sub title

a twentieth-century Chinese peasant memoir

Table Of 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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Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir

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