Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and

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

Now in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans â€œfull of heart-rending talesâ€¦.shocking, simply toldâ€¦a very powerful polemicâ€Â (The New York Times Book Review).

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. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothersâ€”students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasantsâ€”who, whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, have given up their daughters. Xinran beautifully portrays the â€œextra-birth guerrillasâ€ who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; naÃ¯ve young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the â€œpebble motherâ€ on the banks of the Yangtze River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they canâ€™t produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state.

For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781451610949
ReleaseDate 2012-03-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451610949

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781451610949
ReleaseDate	2012-03-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451610949

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

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