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The good women of China : hidden voices / Xinran

By: XinranContributor(s): Xinran | Tyldesley, EstherMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | ;Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, ©2002Description: xii, 243 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9781400030804Subject(s): History | History of Asia | China & adjacent areas | Women -- China -- Social conditions | Women -- China -- Biography | Women -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 951.050 XIN

Contents:

Prologue -- My journey towards the stories of Chinese women -- Girl who kept a fly as a pet -- University student -- Scavenger woman -- Mothers who endured an earthquake -- What Chinese women believe -- Woman who loved women -- Woman whose marriage was arranged by the revolution -- My mother -- Woman who waited forty-five years -- Guomindang general's daughter -- Childhood I cannot leave behind me -- Woman whose father does not know her -- Fashionable woman -- Women of Shouting Hill -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.

Summary: An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves--true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive society

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Prologue --
My journey towards the stories of Chinese women --
Girl who kept a fly as a pet --
University student --
Scavenger woman --
Mothers who endured an earthquake --
What Chinese women believe --
Woman who loved women --
Woman whose marriage was arranged by the revolution --
My mother --
Woman who waited forty-five years --
Guomindang general's daughter --
Childhood I cannot leave behind me --
Woman whose father does not know her --
Fashionable woman --
Women of Shouting Hill --
Epilogue --
Acknowledgements.

An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves--true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive society

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