Ginkgo Village trauma and transformation in rural China / Tamara Jacka.
| Author/creator | Jacka, Tamara, 1965 |
| Other author | Australian National University Press |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvi, 297 pages color illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | This book is published under the aegis of the China in the World editorial board of ANU Press. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024437368 |
| ISBN | 9781760466411 paperback |
| ISBN | 1760466417 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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