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Description edit
When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Xinran: A journalist/reporter connecting with the people of China
- Jingyi: Add a description of this character.
- Wang Yue
- Gu Da
- Zhou Ting
- Shilin
- Guowei
- Wei Hai
- Jin Shuai
- Taohong
- Mama
- Xiao Ping
- Wang Duo
- Dr Zhong
- Lake Taihu
- Hill
- Mrs Yang
- Xiao Yao
- Mei
- Old Chen
- Wu
- Papa
- Zhang
- Mother Wang
- Yulong
- Hongxue
- Liu Ting
- Yin Da
- Mao
First Sentence edit
Early one spring morning in 1989, I rode my Flying Pigeon bicycle through the streets of Nanjing dreaming about my son PanPan.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1. My Journey Towards the Stories of Chinese Women
2. The Girl Who Kept a Fly as a Pet
3. The University Student
4. The Scavenger Woman
5. The Mothers Who Endured an Earthquake
6. What Chinese Women Believe
7. The Woman Who Loved Women
8. The Woman Whose Marriage Was Arranged by the Revolution
9. My Mother
10. The Woan Who waited Forty-five Years
11. The Guomindang General's Daughter
12. The CHildhood I Cannot Leave Behind Me
13. The Woman Whose Father Does Not Know Her
14. A Fashionable Woman
15. The Women of Shouting Hill
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0375422013
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0375422013
Page Count: 256
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 305.420951
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Women
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Gender Studies
- Books › History › Asia › China
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies
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