Ginkgo Village : Trauma and Transformation in Rural China

• Autore: Jacka Tamara
• Pubblicazione: Australia : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages)
• Disciplina: 951/.6035
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - China; Social change - China
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ginkgo Village
• ISBN: 9781760466428; 9781760466411
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910866588603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II