(PRESENTATION COPY) [RURAL CHINESE HISTORY] Sun-Wu Stories.

First Edition. 21 cm.; [8] 129 pp. Includes 15 photographic plates. Bound in original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and blind-stamped title on cover. Light shelf wear. Bump at top edge of rear board. Foxing to edges and rear endpapers. Condition: Very Good. With the original dust jacket, in Very Good condition. Toned with worn edges. Chipped spine head. Some damp staining and pencil marks present on the spine and rear panel. Presentation Copy,SIGNED AND INSCRIBED in ink by the author on front endpaper, “With very best wishes | to our friends | Mr. & Mrs. Monion. | From - | Lillie S. Bousfield. | China 1893 to 1937. | Woolwich. Nov. 1st 1943.” A scarce, locally published narrative documenting the lives, hardships, and social structures of the Hakka population in the Sun-Wu district of Southern Jiangxi. Authored by medical missionary Lillie Snowden Bousfield, who spent approximately 16 years stationed in Sun-Wu with her husband, who was a Baptist physician. Through a missionary perspective, Bousfield offers a distinct lens on the experiences of a rural, marginalized demographic. Amidst chapters on the Hakka frontier and the Communist Revolution, Bousfield focuses on the lived realities of the Hakka women, such as domestic struggles, bodily autonomy, female agency, and the educational shifts for women in rural China.…