Rest in peace...

"In Davin’s last piece of writing, her introduction to Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir (2015), she returned to the theme that had always been central for her work – the complexity of change in rural Chinese society. The subject of the memoir, Chen Huiqin, had worked on the land most of her life, living in a house without running water. Now her home had air-conditioning and she could have video-chats with her grandchild living abroad. How long, Davin wondered, would the balance last between traditional and modern values?"

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/delia-davin-obituary