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| Prologue | xi | |
| 1 | My Journey Towards the Stories of Chinese Women | 1 |
| 2 | The Girl Who Kept a Fly as a Pet | 8 |
| 3 | The University Student | 36 |
| 4 | The Scavenger Woman | 53 |
| 5 | The Mothers Who Endured an Earthquake | 67 |
| 6 | What Chinese Women Believe | 88 |
| 7 | The Woman Who Loved Women | 94 |
| 8 | The Woman Whose Marriage Was Arranged by the Revolution | 110 |
| 9 | My Mother | 119 |
| 10 | The Woman Who Waited Forty-five Years | 129 |
| 11 | The Guomindang General's Daughter | 152 |
| 12 | The Childhood I Cannot Leave Behind Me | 170 |
| 13 | The Woman Whose Father Does Not Know Her | 185 |
| 14 | A Fashionable Woman | 205 |
| 15 | The Women of Shouting Hill | 226 |
| Epilogue | 240 | |
| Acknowledgements | 243 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Jesse Santos
reviewed The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices on September 01, 2007 The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Wow, scrolling down the comments on this book I realized I'm the first guy to review this. Umm, here goes.
Continuing my year of China reading I casually picked this up at my aunt's house but pretty soon found myself absolutely glued to it. I've read a few memoirs of modern China and the Cultural Revolution, many of which contained stories of shocking cruelty and incredible endurance, but none have affected me quite as much as the stories compiled in this book. The images are just stunning: a girl repeatedly sexually abused by her father recovers in a hospital and in incredible tenderness begins to keep the flies around her bed as pets. In the aftermath of an earthquake a girl is trapped two stories in the air between two freestanding walls, rescue workers unable to free her, her mother comforting her as she dies.
Also I am just bowled over by the genius with which these stories were edited into a series of chapters that seamlessly flow from one to the next, and the way each story is both incredibly specific but also echoes larger themes. I thought of comparing it to Studs Turkel's books (which I love) but I think this is edited even more effectively and skillfully than Studs Turkel. One of the best books I've read this year.
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