DOC Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) by From University of Washington Press in History

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Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II; the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform; the Great Leap Forward; the Cultural Revolution; and the Reform Era. Chen was born into a subsistence farming family; became a factory worker; and lived through her village's relocation to make way for economic development. Her family's story of urbanization is representative of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.