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Cargando... The Artisans: A Vanishing Chinese Village (2015)por Fuyu Shen
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History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history. Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the villageâ??s rich history in the face of industrialization. Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked stories of fifteen artisans as their lives intersect over the course of a century. While Shen's view of his hometown and his heritage is tinged with nostalgia, he does not romanticize it. Nor does he sugarcoat the backbreaking difficulty of life in rural China, but he still captures its small satisfactions and joys of loving oneâ??s work with a great deal of care. In an acerbic, earthy and unsparing style that swings from poignancy to comedy, sometimes within a single paragraph, Shen evokes the spirits of these workersâ??a bamboo-weaver and his beloved bull, a carpenterâ??s magical saw, the deserter who became the village lantern-maker and a rebellious woman who beats up her own kidnapper. A reflection on the vicissitudes of small-town life during the epic shift from agricultural to industrial civilization, The Artisans vividly details the hardships, friendships and communal mythmaking of a disappearin No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Shen retells stories as they have been told to him. The stories mostly involve Shen's extended family. After all, the village is named for his ancestors. Many of them are hand-me-downs from nearly one hundred years ago. One or two of the stories are from the early years of Communist China and still other stories are quite recent. Although the past century has been a time of great turmoil for China as a whole, it was interesting to read that this small community was relatively untouched, save for the case of a man who was drafted into the Fourth Army and a man who became too big-headed when he became a local cadre.
I enjoyed the colloquialisms, nicknames, and language used in the book. Jeremy Tiang's translation made the book very smooth. ( )