Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother Stories of Loss and Love

Name: Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother Stories of Loss and Love
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ISBN: 9781451610949

ISBN-10: 1451610947

ISBN-13: 9781451610949

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Authors: Xinran

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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 searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants—who have given up their daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption;…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 3/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English