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The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voices

Xinran

Start date: March 1, 2019

Finish date: May 31, 2019

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Apr 24, 2012 Rosemary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A very dark non-fiction account of the lives of different women interviewed in China in the 1990s by journalist Xinran, who was presenting a radio programme about the experience of Chinese women at the time. Later she came to the West and wrote the book.

There are some terrible life stories here, the kind of lives where you can imagine the women wishing they had never been born. Multiple rapes, years of political imprisonment on starvation rations, insanity, loss, terror ... it's all here. At th ...more

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Feb 08, 2019 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, china

Painful yet I'm grateful to be living in the time that I'm living and in the places I have lived. And yet... I did not completely escape many of the things these women suffer. I don't mean that I am suffering but that I am affected both directly and indirectly. For example, I'm still awkward at greeting my girlfriends with kisses, I barely hug my mother, and never my parents-in-law... There are just cultural reserve that feel unbreakable.

Grateful for the author for bringing these voices to light ...more

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Sep 03, 2016 Maia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

so beautifully written it can't be read as fact, although it is, your 'sense' insists it's fiction, and tells of such horrifying things, that any horror fan should read it. The author's compassion and endless caring is truly inspiring and incredible, she really cares ...more

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