1st Edition

The People of Taihang An Anthology of Family Histories

Edited By Leonard Poon Copyright 2016
    356 Pages
    by Routledge

    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Taihang Mountains lay on the border between Shansi and Hopei in China and originally published in 1972, this edited anthology collates family histories as told by the people who lived there. These accounts are a small sample of the family histories that made up the Taihang community taken from poor or lower-middle peasants to discuss the hardships they faced in the early twentieth century and to provide insight into a rural life to a new generation of Chinese youths. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies and Anthropology.

     Introduction; Foreword;  1. A Home Given by Chairman Mao  2. The Tragedy of the People of "Lucky Star Locust"  3. The Story of Selling Oneself  4. Land  5. A Cave with Two Entrances  6. The Wheelbarrow  7. A Funeral for a Dog  8. The Fight  9. Yu-huang Temple in a Blizzard  10. Under the Iron Hoof of Japanese Imperialism  11. The "Millstone" Shoes  12. A Woman Farmhand  13. The Poor People’s Cave  14. Revolutionary Mother Pao Lien-Tzu  15. A Shepherd Becomes a College Professor  16. A Poor Blacksmith becomes Master of the Country  17. An Honorable Family of Miners

    Biography

    Sidney Greenblatt