Title:
China in one village : the story of one town and the changing world / Liang Hong ; translated by Emily Goedde.
ISBN:
9781839765568
9781839761775
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Verso, the imprint of New Left Books, 2021.
Physical Description:
ix, 307 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published in Chinese under title (romanized): Zhongguo zai Liang Zhuang.
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.
Language Note:
In English, translated from the Chinese.
OCLC Number:
on1241244595
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