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...