the hintons

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clay dube
Spectator

The One Village in China series by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon captured giant American audiences in the early 1980s. Her father (who she didn't live with because she stayed with her mother in Beijing when William Hinton returned to the US). The Hinton story is an interesting one.

Hinton's Longbow group: http://www.longbowgroup.com/about.html

William Hinton wrote Fanshen (and a follow-up Shenfan) about land reform. An obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/may/24/guardianobituaries.china

Joan Hinton, a physicist and Bill's sister, stayed behind in China working on farms. Her obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/science/12hinton.html