The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.08.2014
Verlag
Potomac BooksSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.3/1.2 cm
Gewicht
426 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-61234-694-6
¿The ugly wife is a treasure at home¿ is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese marriage involved matchmakers, child brides, dowries, and concubines, until the People¿s Republic of China was established by Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in 1949. Initially encouraging citizens to reject traditional arranged marriages and wed for love, the party soon spurned ¿the sin of putting love first,¿ fearful that romantic love would distract good Communists from selflessly carrying out the State¿s agenda. Under Mao, the party established the power to approve or reject proposed marriages, to dictate where couples would live, and to determine if they would live together. By the 1960s and 1970s, romantic love had become a counterrevolutionary act punishable by ¿struggle sessions¿ or even imprisonment. The importance of Chinese sons, however, did not wane during Maös thirty-year regime. As such, in a world where nobody spoke of love, 99 percent of young women still married.
The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home draws the reader into the world of love in Communist China through the personal memories of those who endured the Cultural Revolution and the generations that followed. This collection of intimate and remarkable stories gives readers a rare view of Chinese history, social customs, and Communism from the perspective of today¿s ordinary citizens.
The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home draws the reader into the world of love in Communist China through the personal memories of those who endured the Cultural Revolution and the generations that followed. This collection of intimate and remarkable stories gives readers a rare view of Chinese history, social customs, and Communism from the perspective of today¿s ordinary citizens.
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