Mr. China's Son : A Villager's Life

ISBN-13: 9780813339795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 347 str.

He Liyi; Claire Anne Chik

Opis

Through the accounts of a prominent Chinese villager and his family, the author examines the years leading up to China's Cultural Revolution and its impact on intellectual society. The new material for the second edition shows how this family, and the village in which they live, change as the post-Deng Xiaoping era unfolds in the countryside. The impersonal forces of economic and social planning on the part of Beijing are given a human face and allow the reader to understand their impact on an individual level.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Part One -- An Anti-Party Rightist Cap for Me -- A "General Buffalo" Among the Rightists -- I Wave Goodbye to My Homeland -- An Execution and an Eyeless Village Girl -- The Political Typhoon Continues -- A Big Meeting for Taking off Rightist Caps -- Part Two -- A Broken Mirror Goes Unrepaired -- Unconquerable Problems Lead to Marriage -- A Joyful Torch Festival -- I Become a Nation's Worker -- A Two-Member Family Meeting -- Stealing Other People's Shit -- Two Misfortunes and A "Public Parade" -- An Unforgettable Host -- I Lay Down My Hoe -- Part Three -- And I Take up My Chalk -- A Ninth Dish of Eggs -- Our Firecrackers Announce Big News -- Mrs. He Goes to Kunming -- Part Four -- To Sweep Chicken's Droppings and Drive the Sparrows from the Field -- A Meeting of Two Brothers and Four Sisters -- Jumping into the Sea

O autorze

He Liyi's previous book is The Spring of Butterflies, a translation of Chinese folk tales. Claire Anne Chik is currently teaching English as a Second Language at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught English at Kumming Institute of Technology and Yunnan University from 1983 to 1986. He Liyi's previous book is The Spring of Butterflies, a translation of Chinese folk tales. Claire Anne Chik is currently teaching English as a Second Language at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught English at Kumming Institute of Technology and Yunnan University from 1983 to 1986.