This is one of the most depressing books I have read in a long time. The conditions for women in rural China are difficult to fathom. Xinran explains China for westerners and has a charity to build bridges of understanding between Chinese mothers who have given their children up for adoption an...
Xinran explores the lives of Chinese women who have given up their daughters. The stories are heartbreaking and show the harsh conditions of rural China. Many of the daughters who were given up for adoption feel their mothers didn't love them, which is not true. Their Chinese mothers were forc...
One cant imagine the horror of having to get rid of one's baby girl, whether by leaving her on a station platform or street , or worse, drowning the newborn sometimes in a slop bucket. The single child policy was law in China till very recently and was cruel and inhumane. This book has stories fr...
Buku ini adalah buku kedua karya Xinran yang saya baca,buku pertamanya adalah :Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of TibetSky Burial . Keduanya menceritakan tentang kekuatan, ketabahan da ketangguhan wanita Cina dari sisi(cerita) yang berbeda.Pada tahun 1980-an, Deng Xiaoping mulai berusaha untuk 'm...
Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swim...
Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big city.The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t ...
At the long-distance bus station on the way to Anhui province, I met a Han journalist called Tashi. He had spent over a decade travelling through the Tibetan areas, and had researched and published many books on Chinese folk customs, and I took this chance meeting to benefit from his advice, tale...