Joseph W. Esherick 
Ancestral Leaves [EPUB ebook] 
A Family Journey through Chinese History

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—’Ye’ means ‘leaf’ in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface


Part I: The Imperial Era


1. Fleeing the Long Hairs

2. Family Roots

3. Father, Son, and Family

4. Rebellion

5. Official Life in the Late Qing

6. A Time of Transitions


Part II: Republican China


7. Doing Business in Tianjin

8. Growing Up in Tianjin

9. Student Life in the 1930s

10.War


Part III: The People’s Republic


11. Family Life in New China

12. Hundred Flowers and Poisonous Weeds

13. The Cultural Revolution


Epilogue: After the Deluge


Notes

Glossary of Chinese Terms

Selected Ye Family Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Joseph W. Esherick is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (UC Press) and co-editor of The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, among many books.