Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/49256

Hezhen is one of the Tungusic languages spoken by the Hezhen who are living in Heilongjiang Province, China. Their population currently is about 4600, and 10 or less of them can speak the native Hezhen language according to the author’s survey. This paper presents an interview text written by the author based on an interview taken at Bacha village, Heilongjiang Province, China on September 4th, 2008. The interviewee is Zhang Shuzhen, a Kilen dialect speaker who was born in 1926 and now is living in Bacha village. The interview was taken as follows: The speaker answered questions asked by the author in Hezhen language, some of the questions and the answers are mixed with Mandarin. The interview was recorded by the author. After the interview, the author listened to the interview record and transcribed it into a text. The author checked and improved the transcription together with the interviewee by listening to the audio data on August 26th and 27th, 2011. The length of the interview is about 31 minutes. Ms. Zhang told her experience in her 20s and 30s (from the latter half of 1940s to 1960s) about childbirth, recuperation after that, hardship of raising children, relationship between daughter-in-laws and mother-in-laws, and the rules for women at that time.