Harman Patil (Editor)

A Year In Upper Felicity

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
10
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
10
1 Ratings
101
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Originally published
  
1973

5/5
Goodreads

Author
  
Jack Chen

People also search for
  
The Sinkiang story, The Chinese theatre


A Year In Upper Felicity: Life in a Chinese Village During the Cultural Revolution is a book written and illustrated by journalist and author Jack Chen. Published in May 1973, the book chronicles a year spent in a rural Chinese village (Upper Felicity) during the Cultural Revolution. It was based upon the author's stay in the village during 1969-1970. A Year in Upper Felicity is not a work of fiction as the original entry erroneously stated.

The book is organized around the four seasons. It describes the day-to-day life of rural Chinese peasants, and how city dwellers (such as the author) were sent to live and work with peasants to further the supposed imminent Socialist revolution that dominated Chinese politics in the 1960s.

Jack Chen has written a number of other books about life in China, including:

  • Chen, Jack (1957). New earth. Southern Illinois University Press.  – "Until now, very little firsthand information about Communist China has been available in this country. Of extraordinary importance, therefore, is this story of an early collective farm in East China’s Chekiang Province in the 1949–56 period."
  • Chen, Jack (1975). Inside the cultural revolution. Macmillan.  – "Here he gives a favorable recapitulation of the Cultural Revolution, written in a mixture of dry academese and Maoist jargon."
  • Chen, Jack (1990). The Chinese of America. Harper & Row.  – "Examines the events that led to the Tian'anmen Square massacre, discusses religious freedom in China, and speculates on whether a Chinese democracy could survive."

    • References

    A Year In Upper Felicity Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics