| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 374 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
ACLS Fellows' Publications
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| Contents |
pt. 1. The imperial era -- Fleeing the Long Hairs -- Family roots -- Father, son, and family -- Rebellion -- Official life in the late Qing -- A time of transitions -- pt. 2. Republican China -- Doing business in Tianjin -- Growing up in Tianjin -- Student life in the 1930s -- War -- pt. 3. The People's Republic -- Family life in new China -- Hundred flowers and poisonous weeds -- The Cultural Revolution -- Epilogue: After the deluge -- Glossary of Chinese terms -- Selected Ye family bibliography |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
14th century |
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19th century |
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ancestors |
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asian biography |
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biographical |
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china |
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chinese communists |
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chinese history |
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chinese rebellions |
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chinese |
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cultural revolution |
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economic growth |
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everyday life |
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family history |
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family lines |
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historical nonfiction |
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history buffs |
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japanese invasion |
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modern china |
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modern history |
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nonfiction |
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oral histories |
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personal history |
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republican era |
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social history |
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social transformation |
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war and revolution |
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warfare |
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world war ii |
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wwii |
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ye family |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ye family.
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| SUBJECT |
Ye family fast |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Biography
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China -- Genealogy
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China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Genealogy
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010024831 |
| ISBN |
9780520947627 |
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0520947622 |
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9781283331845 |
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1283331845 |
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9786613331847 |
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6613331848 |
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