Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 by Yunxiang Yan
Published 2003 · 88,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 to read?
Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 scores 52 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Anthropological vocabulary with Chinese kinship terms.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Standard academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Village-level detail generalised into claims about intimacy and the state.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense ethnographic material across decades.
How Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 is regarded
Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 holds a literary regard score of 57 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.