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- Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir
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- 2015
- Published by: University of Washington Press
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Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and lived through her village’s relocation to make way for economic development. Her family’s story of urbanization is representative of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.
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- Introduction
- pp. 3-11
- 1. Ancestral Home
- pp. 12-34
- 2. War and Revolution
- pp. 35-52
- 4. Rushing into Collective Life
- pp. 67-87
- 5. The Great Leap Forward
- pp. 88-107
- 6. “No Time for Meals All Year Round”
- pp. 108-128
- 7. Years of Ordeal
- pp. 129-150
- 8. Reaching beyond Peasant Life
- pp. 151-172
- 9. Changes in the Family
- pp. 173-197
- 10. Farewell to Collective Life
- pp. 198-216
- 11. Rural Customs and Urban Life
- pp. 217-237
- 12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy
- pp. 238-257
- 14. Between the Living and the Dead
- pp. 280-296
- 15. All Our Children Are “Plump Seeds”
- pp. 297-319
- 16. Return to Ancestral Land
- pp. 320-332
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