The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voices
by:
Esther Tyldesley (author)
Xinran (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780701173715 (0701173718)
Publish date: July 4th 2002
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Feminism,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
China
Wow. Raw, sad, lyrical and candid -- my first book of 2019, and already a huge winner; I'm pretty sure this will be one of my overall top reads of the year. I can see few ways how this reading experience can possibly be topped. Xinran tells the stories of some of the hundreds, perhaps even tho...
I feel scrubbed raw from the inside-out. This is a mesmerising, horrendous heart-tearing read, but I'm glad i came across this book.It's hard to imagine the short stories and lives described in this book. I'm well aware of the fact that there's injustices in this world. I live in a country we're spe...
Back in Nanjing 1989-1997, Xinran ran a radio program called "Words of the Night Breeze," the motive in her words: "to open a window, a tiny hole, so that people could allow their spirits to cry out and breathe after the gunpowder- laden atmosphere" [of the Cultural Revolution]. The Good Women of ...
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