China in One VillageAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liangs by