Gail Hershatter: Reframing the Chinese Revolution through Rural Women’s Personal Histories (Excerpts)

In these excerpts from her Women’s History Month Lecture, “The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Rural Women, Memory, and China’s Collective Past,” Gail Hershatter discusses the significance of everyday lives in rural women’s memories of the Chinese Revolution. The full-length video of this lecture is available here.

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