The age of wild ghosts : memory, violence, and place in Southwest China /Erik Mueggler
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TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , ©2001.Description: xv, 360 pages ;24 cmISBN: - 9780520226319
- 305.80095 MUE
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Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Orthography and Transcription; 1. Introduction; 2. An Intimate Immensity; 3. An Empty Frame; 4. The Valley House; 5. Digested Words; 6. A Spectral State; 7. A Geography of Pain; 8. The Age of Wild Ghosts; 9. A Shattered Gourd; Notes; References; Index.
Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system.
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