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Author Esherick, Joseph.

Title Ancestral leaves : a family journey through Chinese history / Joseph W. Esherick.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  929.20951 Es35a 2011    ---  Available
Description xvi, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-362) and index.
Contents Pt. 1. The imperial era -- Fleeing the Long Hairs -- Family roots -- Father, son, and family -- Rebellion -- Official life in the late Qing -- A time of transitions -- pt. 2. Republican China -- Doing business in Tianjin -- Growing up in Tianjin -- Student life in the 1930s -- War -- pt. 3. The People's Republic -- Family life in new China -- Hundred flowers and poisonous weeds -- The Cultural Revolution -- Epilogue: After the deluge -- Glossary of Chinese terms -- Selected Ye family bibliography.
Subject Ye family.
China -- Biography.
China -- Genealogy.
China -- History.
ISBN 9780520266995 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520266994 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520267008 (paper : alk. paper)
0520267001 (paper : alk. paper)

 
    
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