| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xii, 243 pages ; 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women -- China -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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China. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- China -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Tyldesley, Esther.
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| ISBN |
0375422013 |
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