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Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity
Language: en
Pages: 246
Pages: 246
Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrou
Language: en
Pages: 190
Pages: 190
What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writi
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
'Fast-paced and punchy ... accomplished' Independent With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
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
Language: en
Pages: 464
Pages: 464
China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in th
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and th
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale fr
