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Book Review of Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999
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An ethnography of a rural Chinese village over many years. The author investigates public-private life, rural relations, romance and intimacy, the changing family structure and other aspects of rural life. Although this is an academic text, it is a very interesting and absorbing read.