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1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations |
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This book is published under the aegis of the China in the World editorial board of ANU Press. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Ginkgo Village, Xin County -- 2. Ghosts -- 3. Weaving lives -- 4. The good earth -- 5. Two funerals -- 6. The road-concreting conflict -- 7. Yang Yurong's house -- 8. Motherhood -- 9. New Year. |
| Summary |
Ginkgo Village provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China's recent tumultuous history. Drawing on ethnographic and life-history research, the book takes readers deep into a village in a mountainous region of central-eastern China known as Eyuwan. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, villagers in this region experienced terrible trauma and far-reaching socio-economic and political change. In the civil war (1927-1949), they were slaughtered in fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces. During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), they suffered appalling famine. Since the 1990s, mass labour outmigration has lifted local villagers out of poverty and fuelled major transformations in their circumstances and practices, social and family relationships, and values and aspirations. At the heart of this book are eight tales that recreate Ginkgo Village life and the interactions between villagers and the researchers who visit them. These tales use storytelling to engender an empathetic understanding of Ginkgo Villagers' often traumatic life-experiences; to present concrete details about transformations in everyday village life in an engaging manner; and to explore the challenges and rewards of fieldwork research that attempts empathetic understanding across cultures. |
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Unless stated otherwise, the author retains copyright to their work while ANU Press retains exclusive worldwide rights for the distribution of the book. From 2018, the majority of ANU Press titles are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which broadens the ways in which works can be used and distributed. Please refer to the copyright page of each book for more information on a specific title's copyright licensing. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Jianghan Region (China) -- History.
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Jianghan Region (China) -- Politics and government.
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Jianghan Region (China) -- Social conditions.
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Asia, Central -- Relations -- China.
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China -- Relations -- Asia, Central.
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Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Histoire.
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Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Conditions sociales.
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Asie centrale -- Relations -- Chine.
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HISTORY / Asia / General
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Australian National University Press, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ginkgo Village : trauma and transformation in Rural China. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2024 9781760466411 (OCoLC)1428686499 |
| ISBN |
9781760466428 (electronic book) |
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1760466425 (electronic book) |
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9781760466411 (paperback) |
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1760466417 (paperback) |
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