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Record Nr.

UNINA9910866588603321

Autore

Jacka Tamara

Titolo

Ginkgo Village : Trauma and Transformation in Rural China

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Australia : , : ANU Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781760466428

9781760466411

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Disciplina

951/.6035

Soggetti

Ethnology - China

Social change - China

Jianghan Region (China) History

Jianghan Region (China) Politics and government

Jianghan Region (China) Social conditions

Asia, Central Relations China

China Relations Asia, Central

Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) Histoire

Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) Conditions sociales

Asie centrale Relations Chine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

List of illustrations --   Map 1 Location of Xin County and Ginkgo Village --   Map 1.1 Ginkgo Village, including only those hamlets named in the book --   Table 1.1 Cast of characters --   Plate 1.1 Hamlet with pond --   Plate 1.2 Two dragon-gate roof frames --   Plate 1.3 Roadside shrine and paddy field --   Plate 1.4 Garbage collection, main road --   Plate 3.1 Embroidered insoles from the Maoist era --   Plate 3.2 Loom in local museum --   Plate 3.3 Spinning wheel in local museum --   Plate 4.1 Harrowing with a water buffalo --   Plate 4.2 Transplanting rice --   Plate 5.1 The guo qiao ritual --   Plate 5.2 Going to a funeral --   Plate 6.1 Drying canola seeds on a hamlet road --   Plate 6.2 Inside a roadside shrine. From left to right: Grandmother Earth God, Grandfather Earth God, the Goddess of Mercy, the Maiden Who



Brings Children and the God of Wealth --   Plate 7.1 Popo’s kitchen stove --   Plate 7.2 Two yanglou --   Plate 7.3 Yang Yurong in her kitchen --   Plate 9.1 Doorway with new duilian and door gods --   Plate 9.2 Family altar with New Year sacrifices -- Language and naming conventions -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ginkgo Village, Xin County -- 2. Ghosts -- 3. Weaving lives -- 4. The good earth -- 5. Two funerals

Sommario/riassunto

Ginkgo Village provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China's recent tumultuous history.