Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China

by Tamara Jacka

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760466417
• ISBN13: 9781760466411
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"