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Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China

Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China

Jacka, Tamara

Paperback

AnthropologyChinese HistoryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 1760466417
ISBN13: 9781760466411
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: Jun 3 2024
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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