The good women of China : hidden voices /
Xinran, 1958-
The good women of China : hidden voices / Xinran ; translated from Chinese by Esther Tyldesley. - 1st American ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2002. - xii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
0375422013 9780375422010
Women--Social conditions.--China
Women--China--Biography.
HQ1767 / .X56 2002
951.050922
The good women of China : hidden voices / Xinran ; translated from Chinese by Esther Tyldesley. - 1st American ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2002. - xii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
0375422013 9780375422010
Women--Social conditions.--China
Women--China--Biography.
HQ1767 / .X56 2002
951.050922