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The good women of China : hidden voices

Author: Xinran; Esther Tyldesley
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Xinran; Esther Tyldesley
ISBN: 0375422013 9780375422010
OCLC Number: 50751281
Description: xii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Xinran ; translated from Chinese by Esther Tyldesley.

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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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