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Family Accounts Show Major Social Change, W. Zheng, B. Liu, Robert Bloom

Accounting Historians Notebook

This piece furnishes an analysis of fifteen personal account books maintained by a Shanghai, China resident for over thirty-five years. Yanxui Yang, age 71, kept a record of her family's spending and income since 1965. Both the Shanghai History Museum and the Beijing China Revolution Museum want to be recipients of these account diaries.