The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

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		The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
		The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

基本信息·出版社：Anchor Books
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2003年11月
·ISBN：1400030803
·条形码：9781400030804
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, “Words on the Night Breeze” sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.
作者简介 Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958. In 1997 she moved to London. This is her first book.
媒体推荐 ?Groundbreaking?. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.? ?The New Yorker

?A rare collection of testimonies that show the scale of our humanity, both good and bad, wondrous and horrific.? ?Amy Tan

?An important document that records with intelligent sympathy lives warped or destroyed by political revolutions.? ?Kirkus Reviews

?Bursting with details that make each account haunting. These stories have all the force of good fiction.? ?The Washington Post

?Astonishing.??Glamour

?Remarkable. . . . Rather than educating readers through facts and statistics, the author takes readers into the world of these Chinese women, printing their testimonies, which are beautiful, simple, honest, but sometimes horrific. Collectively, they are a raw and explosive social history.? ?Rocky Mountain News

?An amazing glimpse into [China?s] culture. . .Xinran leaves us wanting to know more about ordinary Chinese women?women like herself.? ?The Deseret News

?Strangely poetic as well as disturbing. . .Readers familiar with Wild Swans will know about the endless political campaigns and their malign effect on domestic life. . .the author is at her best when talking to women of that era.? ?The Economist

?The power of [Xinran?s] book stems from its simplicity. . . . The often appalling and always moving narratives are based on real scenes. . . . An honest book.??The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

?Moving . . . horrific. . . . Nothing short of heartbreaking. . . . There?s no denying The Good Women of China is an important book.? ?Time Asia

?An enlightening, moving, and sometimes horrifying account.? ?The Sunday Morning Post (UK)

?Leads the reader on an anguishing journey of discovery and catharsis. What emerges from the tragedies that have lain silent all these years is awe for those women who survived the horrors of their past, grief for those who couldn?t, and are-examination of one?s own place, identity, and emotional life.? ?International Examiner -- Review
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
In 1988, Xinran (ne Xue Hue) was selected to work in state media and ended up at the Nanjing radio station, where she began broadcasting "Words on the Night Breeze" a year later. The show featured letters and calls from ordinary women discussing their problems, and was hugely successful and revelatory, as women had few avenues, public or private, for talking about their lives, which were frequently grim and often harrowing. Xinran quit the show in 1995 to try to help her listeners directly, but by 1997 she had burned out. She persuaded the radio station authorities to let her travel to England, where she began teaching Chinese, met and married English book agent Toby Eady and wrote this memoir of her experiences on the program, including a compendium of some of the most painful of the "Night Breeze" stories. She presents narratives from women who live "in emotionless political marriages" and those, the majority, who struggle "amid poverty and hardship." They have commonly experienced sexual abuse: rape, frequently gang rape. Apparently designed to bring the women's horrific stories to light, the book doesn't do enough to situate them clearly in the context of the show as a state-produced product, or within Xinran's own difficulties in processing and presenting the material on the air (or in this book). The results will leave readers sympathetic to the grave enormity of the women's circumstances, but-due perhaps to minor translation problems and Xinran's lingering political worries-somewhat confused about how Xinran tried to deal with their plights.
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From The New Yorker
In 1989, Xinran, a Beijing journalist, began broadcasting a nightly program on state radio that was devoted entirely to personal affairs—a radical concept in Communist China. In response, she received thousands of letters from women, many with questions about sexuality; one woman wondered "why her heart beat faster when she accidentally bumped into a man on the bus." Eventually, Xinran persuaded her superiors to let her share some of these letters on the air, and in this groundbreaking book, written after she moved to London, in 1997, she has also included stories that didn't make it past government censors. A teen-ager commits suicide after learning that a neighbor has seen her boyfriend kiss her forehead; a university student speaks casually of becoming a "personal secretary," or mistress, to a rich man; a Kuomintang general's daughter goes mad after witnessing the torture of the family that sheltered her. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

From Booklist
When an assailant cornered Xinran just outside a London trainstation and demanded that she hand over her purse, the author foughtferociously to keep her belongings. Cash and credit cards were not atthe source of her tenacity; it was the manuscript lying within titledThe Good Women of China . Its loss would have been emotionallydevastating to Xinran because writing the tragic true stories ofChina's forgotten women had been a spiritually debilitating experiencethat she could not endure again. The book took root while Xinran washosting a daily radio show in China. She knew that through thecenturies the female population had been kept uninformed about issuesof sexuality and that China's political mayhem had on so many levelsneutralized emotional affection. As Xinran shifted the focus of herprogram to women's issues, she began to receive letters from herfemale listeners that told of unspeakable horrors and unbelievablypainful lives. The Good Women of China is a moving compilation ofthese stories that will bring even the hardest of hearts totears. Elsa Gaztambide
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Review
?Groundbreaking?. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.? ?The New Yorker

?A rare collection of testimonies that show the scale of our humanity, both good and bad, wondrous and horrific.? ?Amy Tan

?An important document that records with intelligent sympathy lives warped or destroyed by political revolutions.? ?Kirkus Reviews

?Bursting with details that make each account haunting. These stories have all the force of good fiction.? ?The Washington Post

?Astonishing.??Glamour

?Remarkable. . . . Rather than educating readers through facts and statistics, the author takes readers into the world of these Chinese women, printing their testimonies, which are beautiful, simple, honest, but sometimes horrific. Collectively, they are a raw and explosive social history.? ?Rocky Mountain News

?An amazing glimpse into [China?s] culture. . .Xinran leaves us wanting to know more about ordinary Chinese women?women like herself.? ?The Deseret News

?Strangely poetic as well as disturbing. . .Readers familiar with Wild Swans will know about the endless political campaigns and their malign effect on domestic life. . .the author is at her best when talking to women of that era.? ?The Economist

?The power of [Xinran?s] book stems from its simplicity. . . . The often appalling and always moving narratives are based on real scenes. . . . An honest book.??The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

?Moving . . . horrific. . . . Nothing short of heartbreaking. . . . There?s no denying The Good Women of China is an important book.? ?Time Asia

?An enlightening, moving, and sometimes horrifying account.? ?The Sunday Morning Post (UK)

?Leads the reader on an anguishing journey of discovery and catharsis. What emerges from the tragedies that have lain silent all these years is awe for those women who survived the horrors of their past, grief for those who couldn?t, and are-examination of one?s own place, identity, and emotional life.? ?International Examiner -- Review

Review
“Groundbreaking…. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.” —The New Yorker

“A rare collection of testimonies that show the scale of our humanity, both good and bad, wondrous and horrific.” —Amy Tan

“An important document that records with intelligent sympathy lives warped or destroyed by political revolutions.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Bursting with details that make each account haunting. These stories have all the force of good fiction.” —The Washington Post

“Astonishing.”—Glamour

“Remarkable. . . . Rather than educating readers through facts and statistics, the author takes readers into the world of these Chinese women, printing their testimonies, which are beautiful, simple, honest, but sometimes horrific. Collectively, they are a raw and explosive social history.” –Rocky Mountain News

“An amazing glimpse into [China’s] culture. . .Xinran leaves us wanting to know more about ordinary Chinese women–women like herself.” –The Deseret News

“Strangely poetic as well as disturbing. . .Readers familiar with Wild Swans will know about the endless political campaigns and their malign effect on domestic life. . .the author is at her best when talking to women of that era.” –The Economist

“The power of [Xinran’s] book stems from its simplicity. . . . The often appalling and always moving narratives are based on real scenes. . . . An honest book.”–The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

“Moving . . . horrific. . . . Nothing short of heartbreaking. . . . There’s no denying The Good Women of China is an important book.” –Time Asia

“An enlightening, moving, and sometimes horrifying account.” –The Sunday Morning Post (UK)

“Leads the reader on an anguishing journey of discovery and catharsis. What emerges from the tragedies that have lain silent all these years is awe for those women who survived the horrors of their past, grief for those who couldn’t, and are-examination of one’s own place, identity, and emotional life.” –International Examiner

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