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ix, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
Translated from the Chinese. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Where is Liang Village? -- Return to Rang County -- Lost -- The past -- Life's mirror -- Where ruins flourish -- Ruins -- Three Zhang deep in level ground -- Black sludge -- Chrysanthemum riverbank -- The river's end -- Save the children -- The Wang boy -- Aunt Zhi -- Grandma Wu -- Liang Village elementary -- The youth who've left -- Yizhi -- Juxiu -- Chunmei -- Yi -- Afterlife -- Runtu grows up -- Qingli -- Kunsheng -- Lumpy ginger -- Qingdao -- Rural politics under attack -- Politics -- The former Branch Secretary -- The current Village Secretary -- The county committee secretary -- Trials and tribulations of the "new morality" -- Grandpa Ming -- Linglan -- Old Daoyi -- Huan -- Qiaoyu -- Aunt Zhao -- Where has my hometown gone? -- Swamp -- The forgotten -- New life -- Cultural teahouses -- Goodbye, hometown! |
| Summary |
"An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China -- told through the microcosm of one small town. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang's by turns moving and shocking account became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. Across China, many saw in Liang's remarkable and vivid interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own families, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed observer, one family, and one village." -- Book jacket |
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Liangzhuang Cun (Dengzhou Shi, Henan Sheng, China) -- In literature.
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Liangzhuang Cun (Dengzhou Shi, Henan Sheng, China) -- Social life and customs.
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Hebei Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions.
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Hebei Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs.
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Peasants -- Henan Sheng -- Liangzhuang Cun -- Social conditions.
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Peasants -- Henan Sheng -- Liangzhuang Cun -- Economic conditions.
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| Added Title |
Zhongguo zai Liang Zhuang. English
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China in 1 village |
| ISBN |
9781839765568 (paperback ; export) |
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1839765569 (paperback ; export) |
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9781839761775 (hardcover) : $26.95 |
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1839761776 (hardcover) |
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