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.
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments by Shehong Chen
Introduction by Delia Davin
1. Ancestral Home
2. War and Revolution
3. Benefiting from the New Marriage Law
4. Rushing into Collective Life
5. The Great Leap Forward
6. “No Time for Meals All Year Round”
7. Years of Ordeal
8. Reaching Beyond Peasant Life
9. Changes in the Family
10. Farewell to Collective Life
11. Rural Customs and Urban Life
12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy
13. Crossing Borders and Leaving the Ancestral Village
14. Between the Living and the Dead
15. All Our Children Are “Plump Seeds”
16. Return to Ancestral Land
Glossary
Index
About the author
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