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Ancestral leaves: a family journey through Chinese history

Joseph Esherick c2011 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520267008 (paper)
  • 9780520266995 (hardcover)
  • 9780520947627 (ebook)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • PART I. THE IMPERIAL ERA
    • 1. Fleeing the Long Hairs (page 3)
    • 2. Family Roots (page 18)
    • 3. Father, Son, and Family (page 36)
    • 4. Rebellion (page 55)
    • 5. Official Life in the Late Qing (page 69)
    • 6. A Time of Transitions (page 99)
  • PART II. REPUBLICAN CHINA
    • 7. Doing Business in Tianjin (page 117)
    • 8. Growing Up in Tianjin (page 128)
    • 9. Student Life in the 1930s (page 148)
    • 10. War (page 182)
  • PART III. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
    • 11. Family Life in New China (page 223)
    • 12. Hundred Flowers and Poisonous Weeds (page 250)
    • 13. The Cultural Revolution (page 278)
  • Epilogue: After the Deluge (page 301)
  • Notes (page 317)
  • Glossary of Chinese Terms (page 357)
  • Selected Ye Family Bibliography (page 361)
  • Index (page 363)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
THT 45.2 (2012): 302-303 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23265928
JAS 72.3 (2013): 687-688 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43553539
AHR 117.1 (2012): 177 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23309911
TCJ 67 (2012): 197-198 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665756
BSOAS 75.1 (2012): 201-203 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23258929
CRI 18.3 (2011): 317-320 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23733460
HJAS 72.1 (2012): 155-158 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23214364
JIH 43.1 (2012): 162-165 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41487922
TCC 38.1 (January 2013) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/653539
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