Ancestral Leaves

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Ancestral Leaves follows one circle of relatives through 600 years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century during the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye circle of relatives—“Ye” means “leaf” in Chinese—reveal the human side of the massive-scale events that shaped up to date China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the industrial growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion all the way through 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 supply an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese circle of relatives history, illuminating the changing patterns of on a regular basis life all the way through riot, war, and revolution.
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