Guarding Memory

Author: Wang Zij
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book includes an introduction, preface, and editor's note, focusing on folk texts. It covers topics such as "Not Remembering Every Day," "Being Exiled by Fate," "Farmers' Desire for Good Food and Clothing," "The Challenge of Survival," "Erecting a Monument for the Girls in Our Village," "In Northern Shaanxi, Labor is Called 'Enduring Hardship'," "Threshing Wheat with a Flail Makes a 'Gudaguda' Sound," "The Ninth Month of the Year—Double Ninth Festival, Harvesting in a Rush," "Hugging Songs Have No Fixed Lyrics," "Going Out is Easy, Coming Home is Hard," "Self-Sufficiency," "The Path of Hardship is Known to Those Who Have Traveled It," "Even Small Joys Are Worth Remembering," "Seeing Beauty in Sorrow," "Northern Shaanxi Respects Two Kinds of People Especially," "We Have Done Some Good Things," "The Stones in This Place Are Quiet," "A Group of Yan'an Cadres Arrive in Beijing," "Northern Shaanxi—We Experienced Great Prosperity Twice," "A Utopian Myth Crumbles," Appendix I: A List of Beijing Middle School Students Who Participated in the Yan'an Program, Appendix II: More Than Just Looking Back, Appendix III: "The Melody of 'Looking Back at the Yellow Land'," Appendix IV: Screenshots of the TV Series "Looking Back at the Yellow Land," and more.