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Summary:

Review: 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. At the heart of this book are eight tales that recreate Ginkgo Village life and the interactions between villagers and the researchers who visit them. These tales use storytelling to engender an empathetic understanding of Ginkgo Villagers' often traumatic life-experiences; to present concrete details about transformations in everyday village life in an engaging manner; and to explore the challenges and rewards of fieldwork research that attempts empathetic understanding across cultures.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Ginkgo Village, Xin County
• 2. Ghosts
• 3. Weaving lives
• 4. The good earth
• 5. Two funerals
• 6. The road-concreting conflict
• 7. Yang Yurong's house
• 8. Motherhood
• 9. New Year.

Author/Creator:

Jacka, Tamara, 1965- , author

Contributors:

Australian National University Press , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ginkgo Village: trauma and transformation in rural China [by Jacka, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ginkgo Village : trauma and transformation in Rural China (Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781760466411; OCLC Number 1428686499)

Subjects:

Jianghan Region (China) — History

Jianghan Region (China) — Politics and government

Jianghan Region (China) — Social conditions

Asia, Central — Relations — China

China — Relations — Asia, Central

Politics and government

Social conditions

Relations

Central Asia

Asia

China — Jianghan Region

China

Genres:

History

General Notes:

This book is published under the aegis of the China in the World editorial board of ANU Press.
Includes bibliographical references.
Unless stated otherwise, the author retains copyright to their work while ANU Press retains exclusive worldwide rights for the distribution of the book. From 2018, the majority of ANU Press titles are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which broadens the ways in which works can be used and distributed. Please refer to the copyright page of each book for more information on a specific title's copyright licensing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS793.J524 J335 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781760466428 (electronic book)
1760466425 (electronic book)
9781760466411 (paperback) [Invalid]
1760466417 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1428762338