Jie'an Family: the Collective Memory of a Chinese Village
by Huang Jian
About This Novel
In the endless stream of time, every person, every family, and every village is a participant and witness of history, with their own different experiences and feelings. Taking a production team as a unit, this book adopts the oral form of villagers and interviews with more than 40 farmers to capture the daily trivial matters of every household. It records the life changes of ordinary people in Zhangjiagang Jie'an Village (pseudonym) over the past century, reproduces the complex life of the lower-class villagers, shows the colorful picture of collective memory, records the ups and downs of ordinary people in social changes, and leaves historical traces for the silent majority. This book can be called China's first oral history of the century-old changes in rural areas in Jiangnan.
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