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First published October 2, 2002
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16听books578听followersXue Xinran, who usually writes as simply "Xinran", was a radio broadcaster in China before moving to Great Britain and beginning to publish books. She currently writes as a columnist.
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September 4, 2007
Wow, scrolling down the comments on this book I realized I'm the first guy to review this. Umm, here goes.
Continuing my year of China reading I casually picked this up at my aunt's house but pretty soon found myself absolutely glued to it. I've read a few memoirs of modern China and the Cultural Revolution, many of which contained stories of shocking cruelty and incredible endurance, but none have affected me quite as much as the stories compiled in this book. The images are just stunning: a girl repeatedly sexually abused by her father recovers in a hospital and in incredible tenderness begins to keep the flies around her bed as pets. In the aftermath of an earthquake a girl is trapped two stories in the air between two freestanding walls, rescue workers unable to free her, her mother comforting her as she dies.
Also I am just bowled over by the genius with which these stories were edited into a series of chapters that seamlessly flow from one to the next, and the way each story is both incredibly specific but also echoes larger themes. I thought of comparing it to Studs Turkel's books (which I love) but I think this is edited even more effectively and skillfully than Studs Turkel. One of the best books I've read this year.
Continuing my year of China reading I casually picked this up at my aunt's house but pretty soon found myself absolutely glued to it. I've read a few memoirs of modern China and the Cultural Revolution, many of which contained stories of shocking cruelty and incredible endurance, but none have affected me quite as much as the stories compiled in this book. The images are just stunning: a girl repeatedly sexually abused by her father recovers in a hospital and in incredible tenderness begins to keep the flies around her bed as pets. In the aftermath of an earthquake a girl is trapped two stories in the air between two freestanding walls, rescue workers unable to free her, her mother comforting her as she dies.
Also I am just bowled over by the genius with which these stories were edited into a series of chapters that seamlessly flow from one to the next, and the way each story is both incredibly specific but also echoes larger themes. I thought of comparing it to Studs Turkel's books (which I love) but I think this is edited even more effectively and skillfully than Studs Turkel. One of the best books I've read this year.
August 26, 2014
"At that time in China, I might have gone to prison for writing a book like this. I couldn't risk abandoning my son, or the women who received help and encouragement through my radio programme. In England, the book became possible. It was as if a pen had grown in my heart."
A stinging indictment of patriarchal violence in China through the ages and the hypocrisy of the Cultural Revolution, a tribute to the destroyed lives of countless women who have been left brutalized by an unjust, barbaric, corrupt system insisting on treating them as mere tools, and a cathartic memoir written by a woman who should be saluted for her fortitude and determination to give these women a voice despite the towering hurdles she had to overcome.
Few other books have left me feeling so numb and incapacitated with the degree of savagery depicted in them. I only leave readers with a polite request to read this.
February 11, 2017
Have you ever seen a stranger or on a bus and wondered what kind of past they have had? This is a book voicing the fates of faces that are lost in crowds.
Xinran hosted a radio call-in show on feminist issues, 鈥淲ords on the Night Breeze鈥� from 1989 to 1997 which was hugely popular in China. and which brought forth the stories of women from different sections of society, bringing the ugly face of communist China. Almost all stories contain elements of horrible violence, sexual assault, and social suppression and are greatly depressing. Moreover, many of incidences of violence are met out to them when they were children. The problems faced by the women take many forms - rape cases, kidnapping of girls for forced marriage because village lacks daughter due to female foeticide, bullying of children because their parents are Japanese or use foreign goods - sometimes to extent of turning them mentally unstable, people so poor that all sisters of a family shared a single dress which they wore in turns, since all the little clothing the family went to sons.
The stories themselves are worth reading as they draw a kind of social history of Maoist China - with its government control on media, denial of fundamental rights, poverty etc besides doing the service to victims of a ridiculous patriarchy. The patriarchy and poverty creates such ugly forms everywhere in East, but the problems arising out of communism are of unique form,
The trouble is they need a better writer to present them. Xinran keeps on using the phrase 'Chinese women' repeatedly to the point that you would believe that they were some sort of exotic animal species or that she herself wasn't one of them. I mean I know it is your buzzword, but come on, Initially when she kept talking about wanting to know Chinese women, I thought she might have done her studies outside China and so knew little about her country, but no, she had always lived in China. The repeated use of national adjective 'Chinese' instead of using something like 'our women' or 'women in our country' or simply 'women' leaves one with the feeling that the book is written for a foreign audience. And in the last chapter, Xinran confirms it. I think if you want to write about problems of a country. you should assume your primary audience to be people of that country. I am no fan of this foreign reporting thing. And so it is four stars, instead of five stars. There are some other issues too.
Some of the stories would have left a more powerful impact on the reader if Xinran had let the victims finish their story without frequently breaking in to remind how emotional she is as listens to them - most journalists do let people speak for themselves.
It is a translation so, may be, the ridiculously simple language can be forgiven.
There are too many coincidences in these stories which take away their credibility - to take an example, Xinran is told by her father about a couple from his college who were separated by revolution, and she is then told about an unknown woman staying at a hotel who later turns out to be the woman her father talked about.
A woman falls in love for Xinran and later thinks that she is homosexual since she was raised like a man or since she had come to hate men, an observation which she generalises to all homosexual women. Maybe excusable in a country where even married women do not understand sex properly.
Also, it is part biography so she writes about her own childhood sufferings and that of her parents - okay but she must also tell you about office politics, how everyone envies her and so on.
Some of these are minor annoyances but they take the focus away from wothwhile things. Definitly worth reading if you are after knowledge rather than mere reading experience.
Xinran hosted a radio call-in show on feminist issues, 鈥淲ords on the Night Breeze鈥� from 1989 to 1997 which was hugely popular in China. and which brought forth the stories of women from different sections of society, bringing the ugly face of communist China. Almost all stories contain elements of horrible violence, sexual assault, and social suppression and are greatly depressing. Moreover, many of incidences of violence are met out to them when they were children. The problems faced by the women take many forms - rape cases, kidnapping of girls for forced marriage because village lacks daughter due to female foeticide, bullying of children because their parents are Japanese or use foreign goods - sometimes to extent of turning them mentally unstable, people so poor that all sisters of a family shared a single dress which they wore in turns, since all the little clothing the family went to sons.
The stories themselves are worth reading as they draw a kind of social history of Maoist China - with its government control on media, denial of fundamental rights, poverty etc besides doing the service to victims of a ridiculous patriarchy. The patriarchy and poverty creates such ugly forms everywhere in East, but the problems arising out of communism are of unique form,
The trouble is they need a better writer to present them. Xinran keeps on using the phrase 'Chinese women' repeatedly to the point that you would believe that they were some sort of exotic animal species or that she herself wasn't one of them. I mean I know it is your buzzword, but come on, Initially when she kept talking about wanting to know Chinese women, I thought she might have done her studies outside China and so knew little about her country, but no, she had always lived in China. The repeated use of national adjective 'Chinese' instead of using something like 'our women' or 'women in our country' or simply 'women' leaves one with the feeling that the book is written for a foreign audience. And in the last chapter, Xinran confirms it. I think if you want to write about problems of a country. you should assume your primary audience to be people of that country. I am no fan of this foreign reporting thing. And so it is four stars, instead of five stars. There are some other issues too.
Some of the stories would have left a more powerful impact on the reader if Xinran had let the victims finish their story without frequently breaking in to remind how emotional she is as listens to them - most journalists do let people speak for themselves.
It is a translation so, may be, the ridiculously simple language can be forgiven.
There are too many coincidences in these stories which take away their credibility - to take an example, Xinran is told by her father about a couple from his college who were separated by revolution, and she is then told about an unknown woman staying at a hotel who later turns out to be the woman her father talked about.
A woman falls in love for Xinran and later thinks that she is homosexual since she was raised like a man or since she had come to hate men, an observation which she generalises to all homosexual women. Maybe excusable in a country where even married women do not understand sex properly.
Also, it is part biography so she writes about her own childhood sufferings and that of her parents - okay but she must also tell you about office politics, how everyone envies her and so on.
Some of these are minor annoyances but they take the focus away from wothwhile things. Definitly worth reading if you are after knowledge rather than mere reading experience.
June 6, 2018
Kh峄g khi岷縫, b脿ng ho脿ng, 谩m 岷h... H芒n Nhi锚n 膽茫 诲霉苍驳 vai tr貌 c峄 m峄檛 nh脿 b谩o 膽峄� v茅n b峄ヽ m脿n n岷穘g t铆nh truy峄乶 th峄憂g, th峄� c峄眜 v岷玭 lu么n ph峄� l锚n 膽岷 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶, th么ng qua nh峄痭g m岷﹗ chuy峄噉 膽au l貌ng v峄� th芒n ph岷璶 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 "h岷 n峄� Trung Hoa" m脿 b脿 膽茫 nh岷穞 nh岷h t峄� ch瓢啤ng tr矛nh radio 膽锚m khuya Khinh Phong D岷� Tho岷" c峄 b脿. Th芒n ph岷璶 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 岷, quy峄乶 t峄� do l峄盿 ch峄峮, quy峄乶 m瓢u c岷 h岷h ph煤c,... t岷 c岷� 膽峄乽 b峄� gi岷玬 膽岷 b锚n d瓢峄沬 nh峄痭g b峄ヽ t瓢峄漬g quan ni峄噈 th峄漣 phong ki岷縩 v峄� vai tr貌 v脿 膽峄媋 v峄� c峄 ph峄� n峄� trong x茫 h峄檌, b锚n d瓢峄沬 c谩i "tam t貌ng t峄� 膽峄ヽ" m脿 nhi峄乽 khi t么i ch峄� mu峄憂 n贸 c霉ng c谩i k岷� 膽茫 膽峄� x瓢峄沶g ra n贸 膽i ch岷縯 h岷縯 膽i!!! Ai cho 膽脿n 么ng c谩i quy峄乶 quy岷縯 膽峄媙h ph峄� n峄� ch煤ng t么i l脿 ai, ph岷 tr峄� th脿nh ng瓢峄漣 nh瓢 th岷� n脿o, th脿nh c谩i g矛 膽峄� ph峄 v峄� cho cu峄檆 s峄憂g c峄 c谩c ng瓢峄漣????
Khi ph峄� n峄� ch峄� 膽瓢峄 xem nh瓢 l脿 m峄檛 c峄� m谩y 膽岷�, m峄檛 th峄� 膽峄� v岷璽 s峄� h峄痷 m脿 膽脿n 么ng 诲霉苍驳 膽峄� th峄廰 m茫n nhu c岷 sinh l媒 c峄 h峄�, th矛 nh峄痭g bi k峄媍h 膽au l貌ng 膽茫 v脿 s岷� lu么n x岷 ra. R峄搃 c貌n 膽贸 cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a kh茅t ti岷縩g do Ch峄� t峄媍h Mao Tr岷h 膼么ng kh峄焛 x瓢峄沶g, c谩i cu峄檆 c谩ch m岷g 膽茫 gi谩n ti岷縫 t瓢峄沜 膽i c峄 ph峄� n峄� quy峄乶 膽瓢峄 t矛m hi峄僽 v脿 tr岷 nghi峄噈 b岷 n膬ng gi峄沬 t铆nh v脿 c谩i 膽岷筽 c峄 t矛nh d峄. T岷 c岷� nh峄痭g g矛 t么i nh矛n th岷 峄� cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a t峄焟 l峄 膽贸 ch铆nh l脿 vi峄嘽 ph峄� n峄� c贸 con ngo脿i gi谩 th煤 b峄� coi l脿 ph岷 ph谩p, tri th峄ヽ th矛 b峄� 膽谩nh 膽峄搉g v峄沬 l农 t瓢 s岷 b谩n n瓢峄沜, v脿 m峄檛 m峄慽 li锚n h峄� nh峄� nhoi v峄沬 ch铆nh quy峄乶 c农 ho岷穋 c谩c n瓢峄沜 t瓢 b岷 kh谩c c农ng c贸 th峄� d峄� d脿ng 膽瓢a gia 膽矛nh b岷 v脿o v貌ng lao l媒.
Ch瓢a h岷縯, c谩i cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a 膽贸 c貌n nh啤 nh峄沺 v脿 t峄焟 l峄 膽岷縩 c谩i m峄ヽ, n贸 bi岷縩 th脿nh c谩i 膽峄檔g ch峄゛ ch岷 nh峄痭g t锚n 岷 d芒m, th脿nh n岷 m峄� ch么n v霉i tu峄昳 xu芒n, t瓢啤ng lai v脿 h岷h ph煤c c峄 nh峄痭g c么 b茅 18 tu峄昳 (膽茫 th岷 x贸t l岷痬 r峄搃), th岷璵 ch铆 c貌n c贸 c岷� nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ tr岷� ch峄� m峄沬 11, 12 tu峄昳, c啤 th峄� v岷玭 ch瓢a ph谩t tri峄僴 膽峄� 膽岷. L岷 danh ngh末a "c峄憂g hi岷縩 cho c谩ch m岷g, cho 膼岷g", c谩i cu峄檆 c谩ch m岷g l岷 t锚n V膬n H贸a 膽贸 膽瓢a ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� tr峄� v峄� th峄漣 Trung c峄�, 茅p bu峄檆 h峄� tr峄� th脿nh nh峄痭g trinh n峄� b峄� hi岷縩 t岷� cho d峄 v峄峮g 膽峄搃 b岷 c峄 nh峄痭g t锚n 膽脿n 么ng mang c谩i m谩c H峄搉g V峄� Binh.
Bao nhi锚u ng么n t峄� c农ng kh么ng th峄� n脿o gi煤p t么i mi锚u t岷� h岷縯 膽瓢峄 c谩i s峄� kinh ho脿ng kh峄g khi岷縫 c峄 nh峄痭g g矛 t么i 膽茫 膽峄峜. Ch峄� c贸 nh峄痭g gi峄峵 n瓢峄沜 m岷痶 d芒ng tr脿o m峄沬 c贸 th峄� ph岷 n脿o ph岷 谩nh c谩i 膽au 膽峄沶 kh么ng th峄� n脿o qu锚n m脿 nh峄痭g "h岷 n峄� Trung Hoa" 膽茫 ph岷 tr岷 qua. T么i kh贸c v矛 x贸t xa cho nh峄痭g m峄慽 t矛nh 膽岷筽 v矛 s峄� b岷 峄昻 c峄 ch铆nh tr峄� m脿 ph岷 d峄� dang trong ti岷縞 nu峄慽. T么i kh贸c v矛 t峄ヽ 膽岷縩 ngh岷筺 h峄峮g cho nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� l峄沶 l锚n trong th峄漣 k峄� 岷, nh峄痭g con ng瓢峄漣 ph岷 tr峄� th脿nh v峄� b茅 b岷 膽岷痗 d末 theo y锚u c岷 c峄 膼岷g, nh峄痭g c么 b茅 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ t岷璸 th峄�, nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄� b峄� ch峄搉g m矛nh b岷 h脿nh. V岷瓂 m脿 b岷 ch岷 t岷 c岷�, b岷 ch岷 nh峄痭g m岷 m谩t, nh峄痭g k媒 峄ヽ kinh ho脿ng, nh峄痭g v岷縯 s岷筼 tr锚n c岷� t芒m h峄搉 l岷玭 c啤 th峄�, r岷 nhi峄乽 trong s峄� h峄� v岷玭 g岷痭g g瓢峄g ti岷縫 t峄 s峄憂g, v岷玭 g岷痭g g瓢峄g v瓢峄 qua n峄梚 膽au... Qu岷� l脿 m峄檛 膽i峄乽 k峄� di峄噓. Nh瓢ng l脿 m峄檛 膽i峄乽 k峄� di峄噓 kh么ng c贸 谩nh s谩ng lung linh c峄 h岷h ph煤c...
P.S.: Th峄漣 膽i峄僲 t么i bi岷縯 膽岷縩 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y th矛 n贸 膽茫 h岷縯 h脿ng t峄� l芒u l岷痬 r峄搃, n锚n l脿 膽脿nh ph岷 膽峄峜 online t岷 膽芒y: . B岷 n脿o quan t芒m 膽岷縩 v岷 膽峄� s谩ch 膽峄� c岷璸 膽岷縩 th矛 h茫y 膽峄峜 ngay 膽峄玭g ch岷 ch峄�. V峄沬 t矛nh h矛nh ch铆nh tr峄� Vi峄噒 Nam - Trung Qu峄慶 nh瓢 hi峄噉 gi峄� th矛 ch岷痗 c峄眂 k峄� kh贸 膽峄� cu峄憂 n脿y c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 t谩i b岷. S谩ch b峄慶 ph峄憈 qu谩 kh峄� ch铆nh tr峄� c峄 Trung Qu峄慶 qu谩 tr峄漣 lu么n m脿.
Khi ph峄� n峄� ch峄� 膽瓢峄 xem nh瓢 l脿 m峄檛 c峄� m谩y 膽岷�, m峄檛 th峄� 膽峄� v岷璽 s峄� h峄痷 m脿 膽脿n 么ng 诲霉苍驳 膽峄� th峄廰 m茫n nhu c岷 sinh l媒 c峄 h峄�, th矛 nh峄痭g bi k峄媍h 膽au l貌ng 膽茫 v脿 s岷� lu么n x岷 ra. R峄搃 c貌n 膽贸 cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a kh茅t ti岷縩g do Ch峄� t峄媍h Mao Tr岷h 膼么ng kh峄焛 x瓢峄沶g, c谩i cu峄檆 c谩ch m岷g 膽茫 gi谩n ti岷縫 t瓢峄沜 膽i c峄 ph峄� n峄� quy峄乶 膽瓢峄 t矛m hi峄僽 v脿 tr岷 nghi峄噈 b岷 n膬ng gi峄沬 t铆nh v脿 c谩i 膽岷筽 c峄 t矛nh d峄. T岷 c岷� nh峄痭g g矛 t么i nh矛n th岷 峄� cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a t峄焟 l峄 膽贸 ch铆nh l脿 vi峄嘽 ph峄� n峄� c贸 con ngo脿i gi谩 th煤 b峄� coi l脿 ph岷 ph谩p, tri th峄ヽ th矛 b峄� 膽谩nh 膽峄搉g v峄沬 l农 t瓢 s岷 b谩n n瓢峄沜, v脿 m峄檛 m峄慽 li锚n h峄� nh峄� nhoi v峄沬 ch铆nh quy峄乶 c农 ho岷穋 c谩c n瓢峄沜 t瓢 b岷 kh谩c c农ng c贸 th峄� d峄� d脿ng 膽瓢a gia 膽矛nh b岷 v脿o v貌ng lao l媒.
Ch瓢a h岷縯, c谩i cu峄檆 C谩ch M岷g V膬n H贸a 膽贸 c貌n nh啤 nh峄沺 v脿 t峄焟 l峄 膽岷縩 c谩i m峄ヽ, n贸 bi岷縩 th脿nh c谩i 膽峄檔g ch峄゛ ch岷 nh峄痭g t锚n 岷 d芒m, th脿nh n岷 m峄� ch么n v霉i tu峄昳 xu芒n, t瓢啤ng lai v脿 h岷h ph煤c c峄 nh峄痭g c么 b茅 18 tu峄昳 (膽茫 th岷 x贸t l岷痬 r峄搃), th岷璵 ch铆 c貌n c贸 c岷� nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ tr岷� ch峄� m峄沬 11, 12 tu峄昳, c啤 th峄� v岷玭 ch瓢a ph谩t tri峄僴 膽峄� 膽岷. L岷 danh ngh末a "c峄憂g hi岷縩 cho c谩ch m岷g, cho 膼岷g", c谩i cu峄檆 c谩ch m岷g l岷 t锚n V膬n H贸a 膽贸 膽瓢a ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� tr峄� v峄� th峄漣 Trung c峄�, 茅p bu峄檆 h峄� tr峄� th脿nh nh峄痭g trinh n峄� b峄� hi岷縩 t岷� cho d峄 v峄峮g 膽峄搃 b岷 c峄 nh峄痭g t锚n 膽脿n 么ng mang c谩i m谩c H峄搉g V峄� Binh.
Bao nhi锚u ng么n t峄� c农ng kh么ng th峄� n脿o gi煤p t么i mi锚u t岷� h岷縯 膽瓢峄 c谩i s峄� kinh ho脿ng kh峄g khi岷縫 c峄 nh峄痭g g矛 t么i 膽茫 膽峄峜. Ch峄� c贸 nh峄痭g gi峄峵 n瓢峄沜 m岷痶 d芒ng tr脿o m峄沬 c贸 th峄� ph岷 n脿o ph岷 谩nh c谩i 膽au 膽峄沶 kh么ng th峄� n脿o qu锚n m脿 nh峄痭g "h岷 n峄� Trung Hoa" 膽茫 ph岷 tr岷 qua. T么i kh贸c v矛 x贸t xa cho nh峄痭g m峄慽 t矛nh 膽岷筽 v矛 s峄� b岷 峄昻 c峄 ch铆nh tr峄� m脿 ph岷 d峄� dang trong ti岷縞 nu峄慽. T么i kh贸c v矛 t峄ヽ 膽岷縩 ngh岷筺 h峄峮g cho nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� l峄沶 l锚n trong th峄漣 k峄� 岷, nh峄痭g con ng瓢峄漣 ph岷 tr峄� th脿nh v峄� b茅 b岷 膽岷痗 d末 theo y锚u c岷 c峄 膼岷g, nh峄痭g c么 b茅 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ t岷璸 th峄�, nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄� b峄� ch峄搉g m矛nh b岷 h脿nh. V岷瓂 m脿 b岷 ch岷 t岷 c岷�, b岷 ch岷 nh峄痭g m岷 m谩t, nh峄痭g k媒 峄ヽ kinh ho脿ng, nh峄痭g v岷縯 s岷筼 tr锚n c岷� t芒m h峄搉 l岷玭 c啤 th峄�, r岷 nhi峄乽 trong s峄� h峄� v岷玭 g岷痭g g瓢峄g ti岷縫 t峄 s峄憂g, v岷玭 g岷痭g g瓢峄g v瓢峄 qua n峄梚 膽au... Qu岷� l脿 m峄檛 膽i峄乽 k峄� di峄噓. Nh瓢ng l脿 m峄檛 膽i峄乽 k峄� di峄噓 kh么ng c贸 谩nh s谩ng lung linh c峄 h岷h ph煤c...
P.S.: Th峄漣 膽i峄僲 t么i bi岷縯 膽岷縩 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y th矛 n贸 膽茫 h岷縯 h脿ng t峄� l芒u l岷痬 r峄搃, n锚n l脿 膽脿nh ph岷 膽峄峜 online t岷 膽芒y: . B岷 n脿o quan t芒m 膽岷縩 v岷 膽峄� s谩ch 膽峄� c岷璸 膽岷縩 th矛 h茫y 膽峄峜 ngay 膽峄玭g ch岷 ch峄�. V峄沬 t矛nh h矛nh ch铆nh tr峄� Vi峄噒 Nam - Trung Qu峄慶 nh瓢 hi峄噉 gi峄� th矛 ch岷痗 c峄眂 k峄� kh贸 膽峄� cu峄憂 n脿y c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 t谩i b岷. S谩ch b峄慶 ph峄憈 qu谩 kh峄� ch铆nh tr峄� c峄 Trung Qu峄慶 qu谩 tr峄漣 lu么n m脿.
September 4, 2020
This is the saddest book that I have ever read. Heartbreaking stories!
August 22, 2020
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鈥溬呝囐呚� 賰丕賳 丕賱賳丕爻 孬賵乇賷賵賳 賮廿賳賴賲 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 丕賱毓賷卮 賲賳 丿賵賳 賰鬲亘. 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱賳 賳鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 賮賴賲 丕賱毓丕賱賲貨 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丕 賷賲賰賳賳丕 兀賳 賳鬲胤賵乇貨 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 兀賳 鬲禺丿賲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞鈥�.
賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賴 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賷爻鬲 賴賳丕賰 賵乇賯鬲丕賳 賲鬲卮丕亘賴鬲賷賳 鬲賲丕賲賸丕鈥�.
鈥溬堌必ж� 賰賱 丕賲乇兀丞 賳丕噩丨丞 賴賳丕賰 乇噩賱 賷爻亘賾亘 賱賴丕 丕賱兀賱賲鈥�.
鈥溫关ж焚佡娯з嬝� 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賱乇噩丕賱 兀亘丿賸丕 兀賳 賷卮亘賴賵丕 丕賱賳爻丕亍貨 賱賳 賷鬲賲賰賳賵丕 兀亘丿賸丕 賲賳 賮賴賲賳丕. 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賷卮亘賴賵賳 丕賱噩亘丕賱貨 賷毓乇賮賵賳 賮賯胤 丕賱兀乇囟 鬲丨鬲 兀賯丿丕賲賴賲 賵丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 毓賳丿 賲賳丨丿乇丕鬲賴賲貙 兀賲丕 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷卮亘賴賳 丕賱賲丕亍鈥�.
鈥溬勝呚ж柏� 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賲丕亍責鈥�.
鈥溬娰傎堎� 丕賱噩賲賷毓 廿賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賴賳賾 賲孬賱 丕賱賲丕亍貙 賷卮亘賾賴 丕賱噩賲賷毓 丕賱賳爻丕亍 亘丕賱賲丕亍. 兀毓鬲賯丿 賱兀賳 丕賱賲丕亍 賴賵 賳亘毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賰賲丕 兀賳賴 賷鬲賰賷賾賮 賲毓 賲丨賷胤賴貙 賲孬賱 丕賱賳爻丕亍貙 賷毓胤賷 丕賱賲丕亍 賳賮爻賴 兀賷賳賲丕 匕賴亘 賱賷睾匕賾賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞鈥�.
乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨賰賷 毓賳 賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賵丕賱賮鬲賷丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳貙 賲賳 丕賱馗賱賲 賵丕賱丕囟胤賴丕丿 賵賲丕 賷鬲賵賱丿 毓賳 匕賱賰 賲賳 丕囟胤乇丕亘 賳賮爻賷 賳鬲賷噩丞 丕賱氐丿賲丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賱賯賷賳賴丕. 爻賵丕亍賸 賲賳 丌亘丕卅賴賳 賵兀賯乇亘丕卅賴賳 兀賵 賲賳 兀夭賵丕噩賴賳貙 兀賵 賲賳 丕賱丨乇爻 丕賱兀丨賲乇 丕賱孬賵乇賷. 禺卮賷丞 丕賱賮鬲賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱噩賴乇 亘丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱兀賱賲 賵丕賱賯賴乇 丕賱匕賷 賷毓鬲乇賷賴賳貙 噩乇丕亍 賲丕 賱賯賷賳 賲賳 爻賵亍 賲毓丕賲賱丞 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 匕賰賵乇賷.
毓賱賶 賲丿賶 毓卮乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 賲賳 毓賲賱賴丕 賮賷 丕賱廿匕丕毓丞貙 賵亘匕賰丕卅賴丕 賵廿氐乇丕乇賴丕 毓賱賶 賲毓乇賮丞 賲丕 鬲毓丕賳賷賴 賳爻丕亍 亘賱丿賴丕貙 丕爻鬲賲毓鬲 丕賱賲匕賷毓丞 卮賷賳乇丕賳 賱丨丿賷孬 丕賱賮鬲賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賳爻丕亍 鬲丨鬲 乇賯丕亘丞 賲卮丿賾丿丞 賲賳 賯亘賱 丕賱丨賰賵賲丞貙 丕爻鬲賱賲鬲 乇爻丕卅賱 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷賴丕 賯氐氐 賮鬲賷丕鬲 賵賳爻丕亍 賷亘丨賳 亘賲丕 噩乇賶 賱賴賳賾貙 爻丕賮乇鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 卮賷賳乇丕賳 廿賱賶 丕賱賯乇賶 丕賱亘毓賷丿丞 賵丕噩鬲賲毓鬲 亘丕賱賲毓賳賮丕鬲 ... 賱賲爻鬲 丕賱丨賯丕卅賯貙 賵卮丕賴丿鬲 賵毓丕賷賳鬲 毓賳 賯乇亘 兀卮賷丕亍 賱丕 鬲禺胤乇 毓賱賶 亘丕賱 廿賳爻丕賳.
丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 卮賷賳乇丕賳 兀賳 鬲毓乇賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐賷賳賷 亘賰賱 丨賷丕丿賷丞貙 賵兀賳 鬲賰卮賮 毓賵乇丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵鬲毓乇賷賴貙 賵鬲賰卮賮 賱賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 賰鬲丕亘賴丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 噩賲毓鬲 賮賷賴 賯乇丕亘丞 14 賯氐丞 毓賳 賳爻丕亍 賵賮鬲賷丕鬲 毓丕賳賷賳 丕賱馗賱賲 賵丕賱賯賴乇貙 丕賱丕睾鬲氐丕亘 賵丕賱鬲毓匕賷亘貙 丕賱兀賱賲 賵丕賱噩賵毓貙 丕賱賲賵鬲 賰賲丿賸丕 兀賵 丕賱丕賳鬲丨丕乇.
亘丕丨鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 兀賷囟賸丕 毓賳 丌賱丕賲賴丕 廿亘賾丕賳 胤賮賵賱鬲賴丕 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴丕 賵氐乇丕毓賴丕 賱鬲賳爻賶 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賴丕 丕賱兀賱賷賲丞 賮賷 胤賮賵賱鬲賴丕. 鬲賯賵賱 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞: 鈥澵官嗀呚� 賰賳鬲 胤賮賱丞 賮購氐賱鬲 毓賳 兀亘賷 賵兀賲賷貨 毓賳丿賲丕 賰亘乇鬲 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賱賷 毓丕卅賱丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞貙 爻賵賶 丕亘賳賷鈥�.
乇賵丕賷丞 賳爻丕亍 賲賳 丕賱氐賷賳 賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賱噩賲賷毓 賳爻丕亍 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱賲毓賳賮丕鬲 賵丕賱賲囟胤賴丿丕鬲貙 氐乇禺丞 賯賱賲 賵兀賱賲 賱賲毓乇賮丞 賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱賲乇兀丞 毓賲賵賲賸丕貙 鬲鬲卮丕亘賴 丕賱賯氐氐 亘胤乇賷賯丞 兀賵 亘兀禺乇賶 ... 丕賱毓賳賮 丕賱匕賰賵乇賷 丕賱賱丕廿賳爻丕賳賷 賷鬲禺胤賶 噩賲賷毓 丿賵賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丿賵賳 丕爻鬲孬賳丕亍.
賲賯鬲胤賮丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞:
鈥� 賲丕 賯賷賲丞 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳鈥�.
鈥溬冑娰� 賱乇噩賱 兀賳 賷爻賲賾賷 賳賮爻賴 乇噩賱丕賸 廿賳 睾囟亘 賲賳 廿賲乇兀丞 賲鬲兀賱賲丞責鈥�.
鈥� 賱丕 鬲賮賰乇賷 兀亘丿賸丕 亘丕賱乇噩賱 毓賱賶 兀賳賴 卮噩乇丞 賷賲賰賳賰 丕賱丕丨鬲賲丕亍 賮賷 馗賱賾賴丕. 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賲噩乇丿 爻賲丕丿 賷鬲毓賮賳 賵賷賲賵鬲 賱賷噩毓賱 丕賱卮噩乇丞 兀賯賵賶 鈥� 賱丕 賷賵噩丿 丨亘 丨賯賷賯賷貙 廿賳 丕賱兀夭賵丕噩 丕賱匕賷賳 賷亘丿賵 毓賱賷賴賲 丕賱丨亘 賷亘賯賵賳 賲毓丕賸 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱賲賳賮毓丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞锟斤拷 爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳 丕賱賲丕賱 兀賵 丕賱爻賱胤丞 兀賵 丕賱賳賮賵匕鈥�.
鈥溬娰徺傌з� 廿賳: 鈥溫з勝嗀池ж� 賷賯丿賾乇賳 丕賱毓賵丕胤賮貙 賵丕賱乇噩丕賱 賷賯丿賾乇賵賳 丕賱噩爻丿鈥�.
鈥溬冑� 賲賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱兀乇丕賲賱 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱氐賷賳 賱賲 賷賮賰賾乇賳 丨鬲賶 賮賷 丕賱夭賵丕噩 賲乇丞賸 孬丕賳賷丞 賰賷 賷丨丕賮馗賳 毓賱賶 爻賲毓丞 毓丕卅賱丕鬲賴賳責 賰賲 賲賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 鈥溫Ｘ蒂庂娰捹嗁庘€� 胤亘賷毓鬲賴賳 丕賱兀賳孬賵賷丞 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱賲馗丕賴乇責 丌賴 兀毓乇賮 兀賳 賰賱賲丞 鈥溫Ｘ地€� 賱賷爻鬲 賰賱賲丞 鬲購爻鬲禺丿賲 賱賱鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍貙 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 賴賵 賵丕賯毓 丕賱兀賲乇. 賲丕夭丕賱 賴賳丕賰 丕賱丌賳 賳爻丕亍 賰賴丐賱丕亍 賮賷 丕賱兀乇賷丕賮鈥�.
鈥溬呝囐呚� 賰丕賳 丕賱賳丕爻 孬賵乇賷賵賳 賮廿賳賴賲 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 丕賱毓賷卮 賲賳 丿賵賳 賰鬲亘. 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱賳 賳鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 賮賴賲 丕賱毓丕賱賲貨 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丕 賷賲賰賳賳丕 兀賳 賳鬲胤賵乇貨 賲賳 丿賵賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 兀賳 鬲禺丿賲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞鈥�.
賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賴 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賷爻鬲 賴賳丕賰 賵乇賯鬲丕賳 賲鬲卮丕亘賴鬲賷賳 鬲賲丕賲賸丕鈥�.
鈥溬堌必ж� 賰賱 丕賲乇兀丞 賳丕噩丨丞 賴賳丕賰 乇噩賱 賷爻亘賾亘 賱賴丕 丕賱兀賱賲鈥�.
鈥溫关ж焚佡娯з嬝� 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賱乇噩丕賱 兀亘丿賸丕 兀賳 賷卮亘賴賵丕 丕賱賳爻丕亍貨 賱賳 賷鬲賲賰賳賵丕 兀亘丿賸丕 賲賳 賮賴賲賳丕. 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賷卮亘賴賵賳 丕賱噩亘丕賱貨 賷毓乇賮賵賳 賮賯胤 丕賱兀乇囟 鬲丨鬲 兀賯丿丕賲賴賲 賵丕賱兀卮噩丕乇 毓賳丿 賲賳丨丿乇丕鬲賴賲貙 兀賲丕 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷卮亘賴賳 丕賱賲丕亍鈥�.
鈥溬勝呚ж柏� 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賲丕亍責鈥�.
鈥溬娰傎堎� 丕賱噩賲賷毓 廿賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賴賳賾 賲孬賱 丕賱賲丕亍貙 賷卮亘賾賴 丕賱噩賲賷毓 丕賱賳爻丕亍 亘丕賱賲丕亍. 兀毓鬲賯丿 賱兀賳 丕賱賲丕亍 賴賵 賳亘毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賰賲丕 兀賳賴 賷鬲賰賷賾賮 賲毓 賲丨賷胤賴貙 賲孬賱 丕賱賳爻丕亍貙 賷毓胤賷 丕賱賲丕亍 賳賮爻賴 兀賷賳賲丕 匕賴亘 賱賷睾匕賾賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞鈥�.
August 15, 2023
My adopted Chinese daughter is now 20 years old and beginning her third year in college. She is probably more American than Chinese but I hope she will one day read this book and think about where she came from.
The author believes that she could not have published this book if she would have remained in China. But she relocated to London in 1997, and wrote the book quickly there after. Occasionally, as I was listening to the book, I thought that it could be considered a book about women more than a book about Chinese women. But China has a particular history and set of circumstances involving women. the reality is that these stories did happen in China.
I鈥檝e boosted the stars on this book from 4 to 5 after reading it for the second time 10 years later in the audible format. This is a book the definitely benefits from the audible presentation, in my opinion. The author has a special skill and experience in dealing with women鈥檚 issues. Her sensitivity to the experience of women is very obvious.
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I am chasing my adopted daughter鈥檚 heritage by reading books about China, especially as it relates to abandoned and damaged daughters. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you know that my daughter who is ten years old was abandoned in Aksu, China at the age of 3陆 months. We believe that because she had a cleft lip and palate her parents were unable to nourish her so abandoned her in a safe location so someone with more access to medical resources could save her life. She was very malnourished when she was found and, in fact, when we adopted her more than three years later, she was still diagnosed by our doctor as 鈥渇ailure to thrive鈥� due to her very low weight. At the age of 3陆 years she was eighteen pounds!
The Good Women of China is filled with amazing (and appalling) information and observations. For example:
Blood boiling yet? There is much more to create a rolling boil. You won鈥檛 believe it. The book has fifteen stories about fifteen different women in China being treated extremely badly. You might wonder if these stories are representative of the Chinese society as a whole. From what I have learned about China these were not rare experiences for women and girls during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their horrid experiences are recalled by women in the 1980s and 1990s and told to Xinran, the author who became a trusted listener as well as recalling her own bad experience as a girl child.
I know from the experience of my adopted daughter that many girls, including babies, have a hard beginning if they survive at all. This is a result of both the one child policy and the overwhelming desire that the first child be a boy.
Many other reviews on GR go into more detail about the stories in The Good Women of China. I found the individual stories horrifying but I already knew a good deal about the Cultural Revolution.
The stories are individual and therefore more personal than statistics and general recountings of events. Xinran was able to write down and publicize some of the stories she heard once she moved from China to London. In her book she tells about what she heard and what she was able to do while she was a radio broadcaster in China.
The stories are not pleasant and there are not many happy endings. But they expose evils that will only be repeated if nothing is done to change things. Things have changed in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution but many women are subjugated, second class beings. Xinran speaks for them in her books.
The Good Women of China delivers an important message to the reader. By telling these stories Xinran exposes a wrong in the world and increases the potential for change. Published in 2002 about the injuries from events twenty-five years before that, Xinran shines a light in the darkness of a past that continues to reach forward into the present.
The author believes that she could not have published this book if she would have remained in China. But she relocated to London in 1997, and wrote the book quickly there after. Occasionally, as I was listening to the book, I thought that it could be considered a book about women more than a book about Chinese women. But China has a particular history and set of circumstances involving women. the reality is that these stories did happen in China.
I鈥檝e boosted the stars on this book from 4 to 5 after reading it for the second time 10 years later in the audible format. This is a book the definitely benefits from the audible presentation, in my opinion. The author has a special skill and experience in dealing with women鈥檚 issues. Her sensitivity to the experience of women is very obvious.
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I am chasing my adopted daughter鈥檚 heritage by reading books about China, especially as it relates to abandoned and damaged daughters. If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you know that my daughter who is ten years old was abandoned in Aksu, China at the age of 3陆 months. We believe that because she had a cleft lip and palate her parents were unable to nourish her so abandoned her in a safe location so someone with more access to medical resources could save her life. She was very malnourished when she was found and, in fact, when we adopted her more than three years later, she was still diagnosed by our doctor as 鈥渇ailure to thrive鈥� due to her very low weight. At the age of 3陆 years she was eighteen pounds!
The Good Women of China is filled with amazing (and appalling) information and observations. For example:
Oh, poor Xinran. You haven鈥檛 even got the various categories of women straight. How can you possibly hope to understand men? Let me tell you. When men have been drinking, they come out with a set of definitions for women. Lovers are 鈥渟wordfish鈥�, tasty but with sharp bones, 鈥淧ersonal secretaries鈥� are 鈥渃arp鈥�, the longer you 鈥渟tew鈥� them, the more flavour they have. Other men鈥檚 wives are 鈥淛apanese puffer fish鈥�, trying a mouthful could be the end of you, but risking death is a source of pride.
And what about their own wives?
鈥淪alt cod.鈥�
Salt cod? Why?
Because salt cod keeps for a long time. When there is no other food, salt cod is cheap and convenient, and makes a meal with rice鈥�
Blood boiling yet? There is much more to create a rolling boil. You won鈥檛 believe it. The book has fifteen stories about fifteen different women in China being treated extremely badly. You might wonder if these stories are representative of the Chinese society as a whole. From what I have learned about China these were not rare experiences for women and girls during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their horrid experiences are recalled by women in the 1980s and 1990s and told to Xinran, the author who became a trusted listener as well as recalling her own bad experience as a girl child.
At that time women obeyed the 鈥淭hree Submissions and the Four Virtues鈥�: submission to your father, then your husband and, after his death, your son; the virtues of fidelity, physical charm, propriety in speech and action, diligence in housework. For thousands of years, women had been taught to respect the aged, be dutiful to their husbands, tend the stove and do the needlework, all without setting foot outside the house.
I know from the experience of my adopted daughter that many girls, including babies, have a hard beginning if they survive at all. This is a result of both the one child policy and the overwhelming desire that the first child be a boy.
Many other reviews on GR go into more detail about the stories in The Good Women of China. I found the individual stories horrifying but I already knew a good deal about the Cultural Revolution.
During the Cultural Revolution, anyone from a rich family, anyone who had received higher education, was an expert or scholar, had overseas connections or had once worked in the pre-1949 government was categorized as a counter-revolutionary. There were so many political criminals of this kind that the prisons could not contain them. Instead, these intellectuals were banished to remote country areas to labour in the fields.
The stories are individual and therefore more personal than statistics and general recountings of events. Xinran was able to write down and publicize some of the stories she heard once she moved from China to London. In her book she tells about what she heard and what she was able to do while she was a radio broadcaster in China.
Journalists in China had witnessed many shocking and upsetting events. However, in a society where the principles of the Party governed the news, it was very difficult for them to report the true face of what they had seen. Often they were forced to say and write things that they disagreed with.
When I interviewed women who were living in emotionless political marriages, when I saw women struggling amid poverty and hardship who could not even get a bowl of soup or an egg to eat after giving birth, or when I heard women on my telephone answering machines who did not dare speak to anyone about how their husbands beat them, I was frequently unable to help them because of broadcasting regulations. I could only weep for them in private.
The stories are not pleasant and there are not many happy endings. But they expose evils that will only be repeated if nothing is done to change things. Things have changed in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution but many women are subjugated, second class beings. Xinran speaks for them in her books.
The Good Women of China delivers an important message to the reader. By telling these stories Xinran exposes a wrong in the world and increases the potential for change. Published in 2002 about the injuries from events twenty-five years before that, Xinran shines a light in the darkness of a past that continues to reach forward into the present.
June 29, 2018
Estoy absolutamente maravillado y horrorizado a partes iguales con este libro. Maravillado porque es de los mejores libros que he le铆do nunca. Horrorizado por las barbaridades que es capaz de hacer el hombre. Barbaridades que en la mayor铆a de los casos se cometen contra las mujeres.
La historia real es narrada por Xue Xinran, la propia escritora. Xinran era una locutora de radio, que a ra铆z de recibir la carta de una oyente con su propia experiencia en la vida, decide interesarse en la vida de las mujeres chinas.Y descubre la falta de capacidad para expresarse sobre sus intereses, sus deseos o incluso su sexualidad. En definitiva, sobre su imposibilidad de decisi贸n sobre su vida Nos cuenta mediante las vivencias de otras mujeres como lleg贸 a convertirse en la mujer que es hoy. A trav茅s de las diferentes vidas de estas mujeres nos adentramos en los estragos que ha causado la Revoluci贸n Cultural en China. Aunque, como alg煤n que otro cap铆tulo muestra, esta revoluci贸n era solo la excusa de usar ese poder para facilitar ese maltrato y abuso a las mujeres. El hombre por naturaleza siente superioridad sobre la mujer y es algo que solo cura la educaci贸n y la cultura. Algo contra lo que luchaba esta revoluci贸n.
Me ha costado mucho leer este libro, porque ha sido realmente duro. No entrar茅 en detalles de la historias, porque ha sido muy perturbador. Eso s铆, este es un libro de lectura obligatoria. Se lo recomendar铆a a todas las mujeres, pero sobre todo a los hombres, para que fuesen concientes de lo que pueden llegar a ser y el error que implica que muchos, hoy en d铆a, digan a boca abierta que ya no hay desigualdad, que el feminismo no es necesario y otras idioteces similares.
Para m铆, desde ya, Xinran se convierte en un icono feminista imprescindible.
La historia real es narrada por Xue Xinran, la propia escritora. Xinran era una locutora de radio, que a ra铆z de recibir la carta de una oyente con su propia experiencia en la vida, decide interesarse en la vida de las mujeres chinas.Y descubre la falta de capacidad para expresarse sobre sus intereses, sus deseos o incluso su sexualidad. En definitiva, sobre su imposibilidad de decisi贸n sobre su vida Nos cuenta mediante las vivencias de otras mujeres como lleg贸 a convertirse en la mujer que es hoy. A trav茅s de las diferentes vidas de estas mujeres nos adentramos en los estragos que ha causado la Revoluci贸n Cultural en China. Aunque, como alg煤n que otro cap铆tulo muestra, esta revoluci贸n era solo la excusa de usar ese poder para facilitar ese maltrato y abuso a las mujeres. El hombre por naturaleza siente superioridad sobre la mujer y es algo que solo cura la educaci贸n y la cultura. Algo contra lo que luchaba esta revoluci贸n.
Me ha costado mucho leer este libro, porque ha sido realmente duro. No entrar茅 en detalles de la historias, porque ha sido muy perturbador. Eso s铆, este es un libro de lectura obligatoria. Se lo recomendar铆a a todas las mujeres, pero sobre todo a los hombres, para que fuesen concientes de lo que pueden llegar a ser y el error que implica que muchos, hoy en d铆a, digan a boca abierta que ya no hay desigualdad, que el feminismo no es necesario y otras idioteces similares.
Para m铆, desde ya, Xinran se convierte en un icono feminista imprescindible.
December 7, 2014
Back in Nanjing 1989-1997, Xinran ran a radio program called "Words of the Night Breeze," the motive in her words: "to open a window, a tiny hole, so that people could allow their spirits to cry out and breathe after the gunpowder- laden atmosphere" [of the Cultural Revolution].
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices is a compilation of 14 life stories taken from personal interviews of some of these 'survivors' - women whose lives were agonizingly destroyed, their families ripped to shreds, their existences pummeled into chaotic dust. For possibly the first time, these isolated women, of varying backgrounds and economic conditions, have been given a voice through Xinran. The stories are powerful, gripping, anguished accounts of inhumane treatment, sexual exploitation, torture, rape, hunger, death - direct fallout of the Cultural Revolution.
Xinran's compassion for these women inspired her to recount her mother's story and that of her own destroyed childhood when, at age seven, she witnessed the Red Guards march into her home and burn all her family possessions, including cutting off her plaits and throwing them into the fire: "From now on, you are forbidden to tie your hair back with ribbons. That is an imperialist hairstyle!" Her parents were imprisoned and she and her brother were made to suffer daily humiliations, labeled as 'polluters' of the revolution.
These stories, as overwhelmingly tragic as they are, are written in Xinran's exceptionally poetic prose, highlighting their deeply inspiring qualities, the unbreakable strength of maternal love and the everlasting endurance of the human spirit.
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices is a compilation of 14 life stories taken from personal interviews of some of these 'survivors' - women whose lives were agonizingly destroyed, their families ripped to shreds, their existences pummeled into chaotic dust. For possibly the first time, these isolated women, of varying backgrounds and economic conditions, have been given a voice through Xinran. The stories are powerful, gripping, anguished accounts of inhumane treatment, sexual exploitation, torture, rape, hunger, death - direct fallout of the Cultural Revolution.
Xinran's compassion for these women inspired her to recount her mother's story and that of her own destroyed childhood when, at age seven, she witnessed the Red Guards march into her home and burn all her family possessions, including cutting off her plaits and throwing them into the fire: "From now on, you are forbidden to tie your hair back with ribbons. That is an imperialist hairstyle!" Her parents were imprisoned and she and her brother were made to suffer daily humiliations, labeled as 'polluters' of the revolution.
These stories, as overwhelmingly tragic as they are, are written in Xinran's exceptionally poetic prose, highlighting their deeply inspiring qualities, the unbreakable strength of maternal love and the everlasting endurance of the human spirit.
October 15, 2023
"Entrevistei mulheres que viviam casamentos pol铆ticos despidos de qualquer emo莽茫o, vi mulheres a lutarem com dificuldades e pobreza que nem conseguiam uma tigela de sopa ou um ovo para comer depois de darem 脿 luz, e ouvi mulheres nos meus atendedores de chamadas que n茫o ousavam contar a ningu茅m como os maridos lhes batiam, mas muitas vezes n茫o conseguia ajud谩-las por causa dos regulamentos da esta莽茫o de r谩dio."
Neste livro temos alguns relatos de mulheres chinesas. Nenhum 茅 feliz ou tem uma li莽茫o de vida. S茫o todas hist贸rias tristes, em que as mulheres sofreram por causa da revolu莽茫o cultural.
S茫o testemunhos duros, n茫o h谩 d煤vida. Mais uma vez temos homens e pol铆ticas feitas por homens a dar cabo da vida das mulheres. Sinto que me faltam umas aulas de hist贸ria da China para perceber todo aquele contexto, n茫o que isso desculpe as atrocidades que estas mulheres viveram, mas at茅 para perceber a revolu莽茫o cultural e outros aspetos da hist贸ria e da sociedade chinesa.
A autora traz-nos relatos impressionantes, mas acho que se intromete demais no livro. Claro, foi ela que o escreveu, mas devia deixar que as hist贸rias falassem por si.
Neste livro temos alguns relatos de mulheres chinesas. Nenhum 茅 feliz ou tem uma li莽茫o de vida. S茫o todas hist贸rias tristes, em que as mulheres sofreram por causa da revolu莽茫o cultural.
S茫o testemunhos duros, n茫o h谩 d煤vida. Mais uma vez temos homens e pol铆ticas feitas por homens a dar cabo da vida das mulheres. Sinto que me faltam umas aulas de hist贸ria da China para perceber todo aquele contexto, n茫o que isso desculpe as atrocidades que estas mulheres viveram, mas at茅 para perceber a revolu莽茫o cultural e outros aspetos da hist贸ria e da sociedade chinesa.
A autora traz-nos relatos impressionantes, mas acho que se intromete demais no livro. Claro, foi ela que o escreveu, mas devia deixar que as hist贸rias falassem por si.
July 25, 2018
The most hearth-breaking stories in this book are those of women that were raped as children. I was somewhat prepared for the descriptions of atrocities committed during Cultural Revolution, and some of the other horrors described in this book but you can never quite prepare yourself for reading about child rape, can you? Perhaps because of that, reading this book reminded me of FDLF cult in USA and its leader Warren Jeffs who was ultimately sentenced for raping 12 year old girls, his 鈥榖rides鈥�. I saw a film about life in that cult, and parts of some documentaries. I found it extremely hard to watch the documentaries (I think there was a documentary series). Just knowing about such things as child rape is extremely emotionally draining and upsetting, but seeing the victims with your own eyes or reading their stories makes one feel even worse. This book is more like a documentary than a film. It just throws it all in your face.
It is one thing to read fiction about such events and quite another to read the 鈥榬eal鈥� accounts. There are many such present day stories, whose horrors are unspeakable. Finding the words to say them must be incredibly hard. Think of the European girl Natasha who was kidnaped and imprisoned for years. When she finally managed to escape, she was the same weight she was when she was imprisoned at 10 years old. Extremely underweight and abused for years, Natasha managed to escape. I was always amazed by her courage and wondered what gave her such strength. These stories are everywhere. They do not happen only in the East, in Africa or China. They happen in Western and European societies as well. Why is paedophilia so present? Why do we still have so many child marriages, even in so called developed countries? I always feel haunted by the numbers I remember. The number of child and incest marriages in the West is enough to make everyone sick to their stomach. It鈥檚 a problem that is sadly not limited to a single country, or continent.
Reading those parts of the book was as horrible as seeing those FDLP girls with my own eyes and knowing there are so many children still trapped in that cult. They often kick teenage boys out of that cult so they wouldn鈥檛 get into the way of all these men who want to marry their baby sisters. I watched those boys coming back, trying to save their sisters. It is a very brave thing to do, being raised in a cult and devoting your life to fight against it. The human instinct would be to flee and never look back, yet past will always caught up with us. Thinking about so many little girls 鈥榤arried鈥� at age of 12 and raped is enough to give anyone nightmares. I鈥檝e read this book yesterday and needless to say I found it very hard to fall asleep last night.
I just described what the most difficult part of the book was for me, now I鈥檓 going to talk a bit more about the book itself. The author of this book Xue Xinran worked as a journalist for many years, and her stories are presumably based on real events. Some people noted that there seem to be many coincidences in the stories, suspecting that some of them might be fabricated or 鈥榩olished鈥�. I鈥檓 not going to make any accusations, because I know life is stronger than fiction. If the author changed some details, or even made up some stories, that won鈥檛 really change my opinion of her.
I would say that Xue Xinran is a very brave women. As I was reading the book, I wondered how she was able to hear so many heart-breaking stories and keep her sanity. I think Xinran herself admits that at times she feels overwhelmed. As a host of a popular radio show, Xinran received a staggering amount of intimately sad and heart-breaking letters. A young woman that wrote to Xinran asking for guidance killed herself because Xinran failed to read her letter or answer her in time. It is a very heavy weight to carry.
What I found very interesting is the questions Xinran tried to answer with this book. This is after all a book about Chinese women and the author does reflect on the state of women in the Chinese society. She doesn鈥檛 go into great length, there is no encompassing study but this is certainly a book that makes one thing. Xinran is an excellent interviewer but she is also very human. I liked how Xinran often let the women tell their stories in their own way, showing a great deal of patience and common sense. The author tells the stories of so many women, and for me personally the story seemed a bit too quick at times. I wanted to know more about these women. What happened to them once the chapter answered? The amount of stories shared felt a bit overwhelming. I felt like they deserved more space. At times, the writing even felt a bit cold. I know that the job Xinran took upon herself was incredibly hard. It is not a job any book can fulfilled. I know it must have been heard hearing all those stories, trying to write them down, give them justice and at the same time talk about the complex topic that is the position of women in Chinese society.
Wars are a terrible things, not just while they last, but in the years that follow. WW2 was so terrible, that I sometimes doubt our society will completely recover from it. Women, as a perhaps more vulnerable part of the society, are often the ones on whose shoulder it all breaks- the years of chaos and social instability. It is important to write about such things, to give women a change to speak. Many of them are being 鈥榮trong鈥� for the sake of their families and their sense of duty, and talking care of everyone else women often forget to take care of themselves. That is why writers like Xiran, writers that tell these difficult stories, are so important. I spoke much of the sadness of the stories, and how devastating some of them were, but I should also say that some of them made me hopeful as well. One of the stories that will stay will me is the story of mothers who lost their children and family in a terrible earthquake but have, nevertheless, founded the courage to open and run an orphanage. They were never free from pain, they never forget what happened to them and what they lost- but they found the strength to take care of others. Women can be so strong, this book testifies to that. Still, the book doesn't seem to be that well rounded up. At times it can feel a bit chaotic and overwhelming, filled with so many stories. Is it the fault of the writing?
As tremendously important as I think this book is, I felt that the writing perhaps lacked something. A bit more warmth perhaps. The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voice is a very humane book, but the writing felt a bit dry at times. Perhaps the author is more a journalist, than a writer. Moreover, Xinran started to open up a bit about her own life and history in the book, but then she just stops. One gets a feeling that Xinran left many things unsaid when it comes to her own personal history. It鈥檚 not a major fault, though. I would still recommend this book to everyone. It鈥檚 not an easy read, but it is worth it. I own a copy and I will probably reread it. To conclude, do listen to these hidden voices. We all have so many things hidden in our hearts. I really liked what Xinran at one point in the book says- we all need more understanding.
It is one thing to read fiction about such events and quite another to read the 鈥榬eal鈥� accounts. There are many such present day stories, whose horrors are unspeakable. Finding the words to say them must be incredibly hard. Think of the European girl Natasha who was kidnaped and imprisoned for years. When she finally managed to escape, she was the same weight she was when she was imprisoned at 10 years old. Extremely underweight and abused for years, Natasha managed to escape. I was always amazed by her courage and wondered what gave her such strength. These stories are everywhere. They do not happen only in the East, in Africa or China. They happen in Western and European societies as well. Why is paedophilia so present? Why do we still have so many child marriages, even in so called developed countries? I always feel haunted by the numbers I remember. The number of child and incest marriages in the West is enough to make everyone sick to their stomach. It鈥檚 a problem that is sadly not limited to a single country, or continent.
Reading those parts of the book was as horrible as seeing those FDLP girls with my own eyes and knowing there are so many children still trapped in that cult. They often kick teenage boys out of that cult so they wouldn鈥檛 get into the way of all these men who want to marry their baby sisters. I watched those boys coming back, trying to save their sisters. It is a very brave thing to do, being raised in a cult and devoting your life to fight against it. The human instinct would be to flee and never look back, yet past will always caught up with us. Thinking about so many little girls 鈥榤arried鈥� at age of 12 and raped is enough to give anyone nightmares. I鈥檝e read this book yesterday and needless to say I found it very hard to fall asleep last night.
I just described what the most difficult part of the book was for me, now I鈥檓 going to talk a bit more about the book itself. The author of this book Xue Xinran worked as a journalist for many years, and her stories are presumably based on real events. Some people noted that there seem to be many coincidences in the stories, suspecting that some of them might be fabricated or 鈥榩olished鈥�. I鈥檓 not going to make any accusations, because I know life is stronger than fiction. If the author changed some details, or even made up some stories, that won鈥檛 really change my opinion of her.
I would say that Xue Xinran is a very brave women. As I was reading the book, I wondered how she was able to hear so many heart-breaking stories and keep her sanity. I think Xinran herself admits that at times she feels overwhelmed. As a host of a popular radio show, Xinran received a staggering amount of intimately sad and heart-breaking letters. A young woman that wrote to Xinran asking for guidance killed herself because Xinran failed to read her letter or answer her in time. It is a very heavy weight to carry.
What I found very interesting is the questions Xinran tried to answer with this book. This is after all a book about Chinese women and the author does reflect on the state of women in the Chinese society. She doesn鈥檛 go into great length, there is no encompassing study but this is certainly a book that makes one thing. Xinran is an excellent interviewer but she is also very human. I liked how Xinran often let the women tell their stories in their own way, showing a great deal of patience and common sense. The author tells the stories of so many women, and for me personally the story seemed a bit too quick at times. I wanted to know more about these women. What happened to them once the chapter answered? The amount of stories shared felt a bit overwhelming. I felt like they deserved more space. At times, the writing even felt a bit cold. I know that the job Xinran took upon herself was incredibly hard. It is not a job any book can fulfilled. I know it must have been heard hearing all those stories, trying to write them down, give them justice and at the same time talk about the complex topic that is the position of women in Chinese society.
Wars are a terrible things, not just while they last, but in the years that follow. WW2 was so terrible, that I sometimes doubt our society will completely recover from it. Women, as a perhaps more vulnerable part of the society, are often the ones on whose shoulder it all breaks- the years of chaos and social instability. It is important to write about such things, to give women a change to speak. Many of them are being 鈥榮trong鈥� for the sake of their families and their sense of duty, and talking care of everyone else women often forget to take care of themselves. That is why writers like Xiran, writers that tell these difficult stories, are so important. I spoke much of the sadness of the stories, and how devastating some of them were, but I should also say that some of them made me hopeful as well. One of the stories that will stay will me is the story of mothers who lost their children and family in a terrible earthquake but have, nevertheless, founded the courage to open and run an orphanage. They were never free from pain, they never forget what happened to them and what they lost- but they found the strength to take care of others. Women can be so strong, this book testifies to that. Still, the book doesn't seem to be that well rounded up. At times it can feel a bit chaotic and overwhelming, filled with so many stories. Is it the fault of the writing?
As tremendously important as I think this book is, I felt that the writing perhaps lacked something. A bit more warmth perhaps. The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voice is a very humane book, but the writing felt a bit dry at times. Perhaps the author is more a journalist, than a writer. Moreover, Xinran started to open up a bit about her own life and history in the book, but then she just stops. One gets a feeling that Xinran left many things unsaid when it comes to her own personal history. It鈥檚 not a major fault, though. I would still recommend this book to everyone. It鈥檚 not an easy read, but it is worth it. I own a copy and I will probably reread it. To conclude, do listen to these hidden voices. We all have so many things hidden in our hearts. I really liked what Xinran at one point in the book says- we all need more understanding.
April 20, 2018
This is a heartbreaking book which I would never have picked up except I was looking for an X author for my Women Authors A-Z reading challenge this year. I never know how to rate books like these because it鈥檚 important to know about the situations in countries other than our own, but I always feel helpless and angry when I know that women are having such frightful difficulties.
I have to bear in mind that this book was published in 2002 originally, the author having moving from China to England in order to be free to do such a thing. A lot can and probably has changed in 16 years, plus many of the stories related in this book are from earlier years yet.
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) seems to have disrupted relations between men and women and the nature of family relationships to an extreme. Survival was top of mind for everyone and each did what they had to. Xinran reveals the painful stories told to her by Chinese women鈥攐f having children horribly injured, daughters gang raped, husbands treating them like servants (or livestock), work denied, promotions skipped over, you name it.
As China seems to be heading into another iteration of their authoritarian regime, there will undoubtedly be more issues for women. I hope there is still someone like Xinran to listen to women鈥檚 voices and to articulate what they are able to (Xinran herself had to walk a fine line so as not to offend the Communist Party).
In the era of the Me Too and Time鈥檚 Up campaigns here in North America, we have to hope that our sisters on other continents are able to achieve some gains as well.
I have to bear in mind that this book was published in 2002 originally, the author having moving from China to England in order to be free to do such a thing. A lot can and probably has changed in 16 years, plus many of the stories related in this book are from earlier years yet.
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) seems to have disrupted relations between men and women and the nature of family relationships to an extreme. Survival was top of mind for everyone and each did what they had to. Xinran reveals the painful stories told to her by Chinese women鈥攐f having children horribly injured, daughters gang raped, husbands treating them like servants (or livestock), work denied, promotions skipped over, you name it.
As China seems to be heading into another iteration of their authoritarian regime, there will undoubtedly be more issues for women. I hope there is still someone like Xinran to listen to women鈥檚 voices and to articulate what they are able to (Xinran herself had to walk a fine line so as not to offend the Communist Party).
In the era of the Me Too and Time鈥檚 Up campaigns here in North America, we have to hope that our sisters on other continents are able to achieve some gains as well.
July 3, 2023
鈥漀uma mulher a falta de talento 茅 uma virtude.鈥�
颁辞苍蹿煤肠颈辞
Um livro que me deu um aban茫o como poucos e me provocou rea莽玫es f铆sicas desagrad谩veis durante a leitura.
Os testemunhos das agress玫es sofridas por estas mulheres (e certamente milhares de an贸nimas) s茫o de uma viol锚ncia inqualific谩vel. Algumas com a agravante de virem da parte de familiares: pais e maridos que violam e espancam sem piedade ou remorso.
Mas fosse por aus锚ncia de moral, pelas regras do regime pol铆tico, por pobreza ou ignor芒ncia, nada fundamenta este n铆vel de selvajaria.
Gostaria de acreditar que nos dias de hoje a China j谩 abandonou tais pr谩ticas de misoginia, mas n茫o sei se o meu otimismo chega a tanto.
Numa obra desta natureza, as estrelas s茫o inteiramente para as mulheres, as que tiveram a coragem de denunciar e a jornalista, Xinran, que teve de ir para Londres para poder publicar o livro.
颁辞苍蹿煤肠颈辞
Um livro que me deu um aban茫o como poucos e me provocou rea莽玫es f铆sicas desagrad谩veis durante a leitura.
Os testemunhos das agress玫es sofridas por estas mulheres (e certamente milhares de an贸nimas) s茫o de uma viol锚ncia inqualific谩vel. Algumas com a agravante de virem da parte de familiares: pais e maridos que violam e espancam sem piedade ou remorso.
Mas fosse por aus锚ncia de moral, pelas regras do regime pol铆tico, por pobreza ou ignor芒ncia, nada fundamenta este n铆vel de selvajaria.
Gostaria de acreditar que nos dias de hoje a China j谩 abandonou tais pr谩ticas de misoginia, mas n茫o sei se o meu otimismo chega a tanto.
Numa obra desta natureza, as estrelas s茫o inteiramente para as mulheres, as que tiveram a coragem de denunciar e a jornalista, Xinran, que teve de ir para Londres para poder publicar o livro.
February 19, 2019
鈥淗茫y th岷璽 can 膽岷 khi 膽峄峜 H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa鈥�
T么i 膽茫 膽瓢峄 c岷h b谩o nh瓢 th岷� trong l煤c 膽峄峜 m峄檛 review v峄� cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y. V脿 qu岷� th峄眂 tr谩i tim t么i nh瓢 b峄� b贸p ngh岷箃 tr瓢峄沜 nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au kh峄g khi岷縫 岷. 膼茫 nhi峄乽 l岷 t么i ph岷 g岷 s谩ch l岷 khi 膽ang 膽峄峜 d峄� 膽峄� b矛nh t末nh l岷, 膽峄� hi峄僽 cho th岷 nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au kh峄� qu谩 l峄沶 m脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 膽茫 ph岷 tr岷 qua.
T么i t峄玭g 膽峄峜 峄� 膽芒u 膽贸 r岷眓g 鈥淐hi岷縩 tranh th峄� th谩ch con ng瓢峄漣鈥� nh瓢ng ph岷 ch膬ng 鈥淐谩ch m岷g鈥� c农ng l脿 m峄檛 th谩ch th峄ヽ m脿 con ng瓢峄漣 ph岷 膽瓢啤ng 膽岷 ?
C谩ch m岷g v膬n h贸a l脿 m峄檛 ch瓢啤ng 膽en t峄慽, l脿 m峄檛 v岷縯 nh啤 trong l峄媍h s峄� Trung Qu峄慶. 峄� c谩i th峄漣 k矛 膽岷 h峄梟 膽峄檔 v脿 t膬m t峄慽 岷, m峄峣 gi谩 tr峄� 膽岷 膽峄ヽ 膽峄乽 b峄� v峄﹖ xu峄憂g m岷穞 膽岷 m脿 gi岷玬 膽岷 cho t岷� t啤i, con ng瓢峄漣 th矛 u m锚 v脿 ngu mu峄檌, tr铆 tu峄� v脿 nh芒n 膽岷 b峄� v农 nh峄 膽岷縩 t岷璶 c霉ng. Ch煤ng ta ch岷硁g th峄� bi岷縯 膽瓢峄 r岷眓g 膽茫 c贸 bao nhi锚u m岷h 膽峄漣 膽茫 b峄� ch么n v霉i 峄� th峄漣 膽岷 岷 ch峄� n贸i chi 膽岷縩 s峄� ph岷璶 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� ? Khinh phong d岷� tho岷 c贸 ngh末a l脿 L峄漣 c峄 gi贸 膽锚m, l脿 m峄檛 ch瓢啤ng tr矛nh ph谩t thanh c峄 膽脿i ph谩t thanh Nam Kinh, 峄� 膽贸 ti岷縩g n贸i y岷縰 峄泃 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 l岷 膽岷 ti锚n 膽瓢峄 c岷 l锚n sau h脿ng tr膬m n膬m c芒m l岷穘g 膽猫 n茅n. C贸 l岷� ch峄� v脿o l煤c 膽瓢峄 膽锚m 膽en b岷 b峄峜, 膽瓢峄 l脿n gi贸 m啤n man l脿m b岷, khi th芒n ph岷璶 膽茫 膽瓢峄 岷﹏ gi岷 th矛 th岷� gi峄沬 b铆 m岷璽 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� m峄沬 膽瓢峄 h茅 m峄�, ch岷 ch峄゛ 膽岷 r岷珁 nh峄痭g 膽au th瓢啤ng v脿 t峄 nh峄. Ph峄� n峄� l脿 m峄檛 sinh v岷璽 k矛 di峄噓, h峄� c贸 th峄� v么 c霉ng y岷縰 峄泃 nh峄痭g 膽峄搉g th峄漣 c农ng v么 c霉ng d农ng c岷, m峄乵 m岷 nh瓢 n瓢峄沜 nh峄痭g khi c岷 h峄� s岷� tr峄� n锚n c峄﹏g r岷痭 t峄盿 膽谩, ch铆nh t矛nh y锚u bao dung v脿 s峄� nh岷 c岷 膽岷 n峄� t铆nh c峄 h峄� 膽茫 mang l岷 nh峄痭g s岷痗 m脿u r峄眂 r峄� cho th岷� gi峄沬. T么i 膽茫 lu么n ng瓢峄g m峄� ph谩i n峄� nh瓢 th岷�. V岷瓂 m脿 H芒n Nhi锚n l岷 膽em 膽岷縩 cho t么i nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 r岷 kh谩c, g芒y b脿ng ho脿ng v脿 s峄璶g s峄憈 膽岷縩 m峄ヽ nh峄痭g t芒m h峄搉 s岷痶 膽谩 nh岷 c农ng ph岷 g峄 ng茫.
T么i 膽茫 膽峄峜 v峄� C谩ch m岷g v膬n h贸a t峄� r岷 l芒u r峄搃 nh瓢ng ch峄� 膽岷縩 khi 膽峄峜 H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa t么i m峄沬 bi岷縯 r岷眓g 膽茫 c贸 kh么ng ch峄� m峄檛 m脿 c贸 膽岷縩 h脿ng tr膬m, h脿ng ngh矛n hay th岷璵 ch铆 l脿 c岷� tri峄噓 ph峄� n峄� 膽茫 ph岷 o岷眓 m矛nh tr瓢峄沜 c啤n b茫o c峄 l峄媍h s峄� 岷. H峄� b峄� ch脿 膽岷, l膬ng nh峄 v脿 h峄 ho岷 b岷眓g nh峄痭g c谩ch m脿 con ng瓢峄漣 ta kh么ng t脿i n脿o t瓢峄焠g t瓢峄g 膽瓢峄. 膼贸 l脿 c么 b茅 H峄搉g Tuy岷縯 b峄� ch铆nh cha ru峄檛 l岷 d峄g v脿 b岷 h脿nh, lu么n t矛m m峄峣 c谩ch 膽脿y 膽峄峚 b岷 th芒n ch峄� 膽峄� 膽瓢峄 n岷眒 vi峄噉. B峄焛 v矛 峄� b峄噉h vi峄噉 d霉 ph岷 tr岷 qua nh峄痭g l岷 l岷 m谩u, nh峄痭g vi锚n th瓢峄沜 膽岷痭g ngh茅t nh瓢ng em kh么ng c貌n ph岷 lo s峄� v峄� ng瓢峄漣 cha m岷 nh芒n t铆nh c峄 m矛nh n峄痑. H峄搉g Tuy岷縯 khao kh谩t t矛nh y锚u th瓢啤ng m脿 em ch瓢a bao gi峄� nh岷璶 膽瓢峄 t峄� gia 膽矛nh, em t矛m 膽岷縩 nh峄痭g ch煤 ru峄搃, th芒n thi岷縯 v峄沬 ch煤ng v脿 coi ch煤ng nh瓢 m峄檛 ni峄乵 an 峄. 膼峄� r峄搃 cu峄慽 c霉ng em ch岷縯 b峄焛 c膬n b峄噉h nhi峄卪 tr霉ng m谩u v矛 nh茅t ru峄搃 ch岷縯 v脿o v岷縯 th瓢啤ng 膽ang m瓢ng m峄� c峄 m矛nh. 膼贸 l脿 nh峄痭g gia 膽矛nh b峄� h峄 ho岷 v脿 v峄 v峄� tr瓢峄沜 h脿ng t岷 bi k峄媍h 膽岷縩 m峄ヽ t峄� 膽贸 v脿 m茫i m茫i v峄� sau ch岷硁g c貌n ai c贸 th峄� c岷 nh岷璶 s峄� vui v岷� hay h岷h ph煤c 膽瓢峄 n峄痑. 膼贸 l脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄� kh么ng c贸 t瓢 c谩ch l脿m m岷�, l脿m v峄� m脿 ch峄� l脿 m峄檛 th峄� c么ng c峄� th峄廰 m茫n sinh d峄, nh峄痭g c谩i m谩y 膽岷� v么 v峄� v脿 kh么ng nh岷璶 膽瓢峄 b岷 c峄� s峄� t么n tr峄峮g n脿o t峄� ch铆nh nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ con c峄 m矛nh. 膼贸 l脿 m峄慽 t矛nh ch峄� 膽峄 b峄憂 m瓢啤i l膬m n膬m c峄 T末nh Di, t矛nh y锚u 膽岷筽 膽岷� c峄 b脿 v脿 C峄� 膼岷 tan v峄�, v峄沬 m瓢峄漣 l膬m ngh矛n 膽锚m v岷痭g im l岷穘g 膽峄 ch峄� m脿 nay t岷 c岷� ch峄� c貌n n岷痬 tro t脿n. 膼贸 l脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 m岷� mang n峄梚 膽au v么 t岷璶 khi ch峄﹏g ki岷縩 c岷h nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ con r峄漣 b峄� tr岷 th岷�. Hay Th岷h L芒m, c么 b茅 m茫i m茫i ch岷硁g c贸 c啤 h峄檌 膽峄� tr瓢峄焠g th脿nh, b峄� ch岷 th瓢啤ng t芒m l铆 t峄� thu峄� 岷 th啤, b峄� l膬ng nh峄 膽岷縩 m峄ヽ thi峄僽 n膬ng tr铆 tu峄�. V脿 c貌n r岷 r岷 nhi峄乽 th芒n ph岷璶 ph峄� n峄� kh谩c n峄痑, t岷 c岷� ch煤ng 膽峄乽 膽au 膽峄沶 v脿 t峄 nh峄 bi岷縯 bao. Ph峄� n峄� kh么ng th峄� t峄� v峄� m脿 c农ng kh么ng c贸 ai b岷 v峄� h峄�. H峄� b岷 l峄眂 tr瓢峄沜 nh峄痭g t岷 bi k峄媍h b岷痶 ngu峄搉 t峄� nh峄痭g bi岷縩 膽峄檔g ch铆nh tr峄� - x茫 h峄檌 c峄 膽岷 n瓢峄沜. T么i kh么ng th峄� t瓢峄焠g t瓢峄g 膽瓢峄 r岷眓g con ng瓢峄漣 l岷 c贸 th峄� m岷 nh芒n t铆nh 膽岷縩 nh瓢 th岷�, 鈥淐on ng瓢峄漣 kh谩c con th煤 峄� ch峄� ng瓢峄漣 ta bi岷縯 ki峄乵 l貌ng鈥�, v岷瓂 m脿 l农 膽脿n 么ng mang c谩i m谩c C谩ch m岷g 岷 l岷 khu岷 ph峄 tr瓢峄沜 b岷 n膬ng c峄 m矛nh 膽峄� r峄搃 t峄� b峄� 膽i ph岷 鈥榥g瓢峄漣鈥� ch峄� 膽峄� l岷 ph岷 鈥榗on鈥� bi岷縩 ch煤ng th脿nh nh峄痭g th峄� th煤 v岷璽 ch峄� bi岷縯 膽岷縩 b岷 n膬ng kh么ng h啤n kh么ng k茅m. V脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� th矛 nghi峄卪 nhi锚n tr峄� th脿nh n岷 nh芒n cho b岷 th煤 v岷璽 岷. Ng瓢峄漣 ta th瓢峄漬g n贸i 鈥淭h峄漣 gian l脿 thu峄慶 hay ch峄痑 l脿nh cho m峄峣 v岷縯 th瓢啤ng鈥�, nh瓢ng trong tr瓢峄漬g h峄 n脿y th峄漣 gian tuy mang nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 岷 膽岷縩 v峄沬 t瓢啤ng lai nh瓢ng k媒 峄ヽ th矛 膽茫 tr峄� th脿nh nh峄痭g b贸ng ma 谩m 岷h h峄�, h峄 ho岷 膽岷縩 t岷璶 c霉ng t芒m h峄搉 h峄�. V岷縯 th瓢啤ng 膽茫 li峄乶 s岷筼 nh瓢ng v岷瓂 th矛 sao, b锚n d瓢峄沬 nh峄痭g v岷縯 s岷筼 岷, v岷縯 th瓢啤ng 膽茫, 膽ang v脿 s岷� r峄� m谩u t峄玭g gi芒y, t峄玭g ph煤t m茫i cho 膽岷縩 ng脿y nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 岷 l矛a 膽峄漣.
H芒n Nhi锚n v峄沬 t瓢 c谩ch l脿 m峄檛 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�, 膽茫 l岷痭g nghe v脿 th岷 hi峄僽 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 trong su峄憈 t谩m n膬m tr峄漣 g岷痭 b贸 v峄沬 ch瓢啤ng tr矛nh ph谩t thanh Khinh phong d岷� tho岷. Kh么ng nh峄痭g v岷瓂 m脿 b脿 c貌n ti岷縩 h脿nh ph峄弉g v岷 h啤n 200 ph峄� n峄�, thu th岷璸 nh峄痭g quy峄僴 s谩ch b铆 m岷璽 c峄 t峄玭g gia 膽矛nh, nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 bi k峄媍h c貌n b峄� 岷﹏ khu岷, nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au r岷 ri锚ng t瓢 g芒y b脿ng ho脿ng v脿 谩m 岷h 膽岷縩 t峄檛 c霉ng. B脿 膽茫 膽em n峄梚 膽au c峄 ch铆nh m矛nh v脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� kh谩c ph啤i b脿y tr锚n nh峄痭g trang gi岷, tr岷 tr峄, ch芒n th峄眂 v脿 g芒y r煤ng 膽峄檔g 膽岷縩 t岷璶 t芒m can. L峄慽 k峄� chuy峄噉 tuy kh么ng m峄沬 l岷� nh瓢ng 膽谩ng qu媒 峄� ch峄� l脿 r岷 m峄檆 m岷 v脿 ch芒n th峄眂. H芒n Nhi锚n 膽茫 ph谩c h峄峚 n锚n nh峄痭g b峄ヽ ch芒n dung c峄 ph峄� n峄� Trung Hoa b岷眓g m峄檛 c谩i nh矛n tinh t岷� v脿 膽ong 膽岷 s峄� c岷 th么ng. V脿 t峄� 膽贸 ph谩t hi峄噉 ra v岷� 膽岷筽 膽岷� v么 ng岷 trong t芒m h峄搉 c峄 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�, nh瓢 nh峄痭g l峄漣 b脿 hay n贸i: 鈥淧h峄� n峄� l脿 l峄眂 l瓢峄g s谩ng t岷 trong v农 tr峄� n脿y. H峄� 膽em 膽岷縩 cho cu峄檆 s峄憂g c谩i 膽岷筽, c岷 x煤c v脿 s峄� nh岷 c岷. H峄� tinh khi岷縯 v脿 trong s岷h. Ph峄� n峄� l脿 nh峄痭g t岷 v岷璽 tuy峄噒 v峄漣 nh岷鈥︹€�
Trong ti岷縩g Trung 鈥楬岷鈥� c贸 ngh末a l脿 t峄憈, c农ng c贸 ngh末a l脿 h岷h ph煤c. H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa c贸 ngh末a l脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� t峄憈 c峄 Trung Hoa. T么i ngh末 h峄� x峄﹏g 膽谩ng v峄沬 t峄� 鈥楬岷鈥� 膽贸. Nh瓢ng h峄� c贸 h岷h ph煤c kh么ng ? T么i kh么ng bi岷縯. C贸 l岷� nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 岷 膽茫 c贸 cho ri锚ng m矛nh nh峄痭g c芒u tr岷� l峄漣 t峄� r岷 l芒u r峄搃.
T么i 膽茫 膽瓢峄 c岷h b谩o nh瓢 th岷� trong l煤c 膽峄峜 m峄檛 review v峄� cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y. V脿 qu岷� th峄眂 tr谩i tim t么i nh瓢 b峄� b贸p ngh岷箃 tr瓢峄沜 nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au kh峄g khi岷縫 岷. 膼茫 nhi峄乽 l岷 t么i ph岷 g岷 s谩ch l岷 khi 膽ang 膽峄峜 d峄� 膽峄� b矛nh t末nh l岷, 膽峄� hi峄僽 cho th岷 nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au kh峄� qu谩 l峄沶 m脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 膽茫 ph岷 tr岷 qua.
T么i t峄玭g 膽峄峜 峄� 膽芒u 膽贸 r岷眓g 鈥淐hi岷縩 tranh th峄� th谩ch con ng瓢峄漣鈥� nh瓢ng ph岷 ch膬ng 鈥淐谩ch m岷g鈥� c农ng l脿 m峄檛 th谩ch th峄ヽ m脿 con ng瓢峄漣 ph岷 膽瓢啤ng 膽岷 ?
C谩ch m岷g v膬n h贸a l脿 m峄檛 ch瓢啤ng 膽en t峄慽, l脿 m峄檛 v岷縯 nh啤 trong l峄媍h s峄� Trung Qu峄慶. 峄� c谩i th峄漣 k矛 膽岷 h峄梟 膽峄檔 v脿 t膬m t峄慽 岷, m峄峣 gi谩 tr峄� 膽岷 膽峄ヽ 膽峄乽 b峄� v峄﹖ xu峄憂g m岷穞 膽岷 m脿 gi岷玬 膽岷 cho t岷� t啤i, con ng瓢峄漣 th矛 u m锚 v脿 ngu mu峄檌, tr铆 tu峄� v脿 nh芒n 膽岷 b峄� v农 nh峄 膽岷縩 t岷璶 c霉ng. Ch煤ng ta ch岷硁g th峄� bi岷縯 膽瓢峄 r岷眓g 膽茫 c贸 bao nhi锚u m岷h 膽峄漣 膽茫 b峄� ch么n v霉i 峄� th峄漣 膽岷 岷 ch峄� n贸i chi 膽岷縩 s峄� ph岷璶 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� ? Khinh phong d岷� tho岷 c贸 ngh末a l脿 L峄漣 c峄 gi贸 膽锚m, l脿 m峄檛 ch瓢啤ng tr矛nh ph谩t thanh c峄 膽脿i ph谩t thanh Nam Kinh, 峄� 膽贸 ti岷縩g n贸i y岷縰 峄泃 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 l岷 膽岷 ti锚n 膽瓢峄 c岷 l锚n sau h脿ng tr膬m n膬m c芒m l岷穘g 膽猫 n茅n. C贸 l岷� ch峄� v脿o l煤c 膽瓢峄 膽锚m 膽en b岷 b峄峜, 膽瓢峄 l脿n gi贸 m啤n man l脿m b岷, khi th芒n ph岷璶 膽茫 膽瓢峄 岷﹏ gi岷 th矛 th岷� gi峄沬 b铆 m岷璽 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� m峄沬 膽瓢峄 h茅 m峄�, ch岷 ch峄゛ 膽岷 r岷珁 nh峄痭g 膽au th瓢啤ng v脿 t峄 nh峄. Ph峄� n峄� l脿 m峄檛 sinh v岷璽 k矛 di峄噓, h峄� c贸 th峄� v么 c霉ng y岷縰 峄泃 nh峄痭g 膽峄搉g th峄漣 c农ng v么 c霉ng d农ng c岷, m峄乵 m岷 nh瓢 n瓢峄沜 nh峄痭g khi c岷 h峄� s岷� tr峄� n锚n c峄﹏g r岷痭 t峄盿 膽谩, ch铆nh t矛nh y锚u bao dung v脿 s峄� nh岷 c岷 膽岷 n峄� t铆nh c峄 h峄� 膽茫 mang l岷 nh峄痭g s岷痗 m脿u r峄眂 r峄� cho th岷� gi峄沬. T么i 膽茫 lu么n ng瓢峄g m峄� ph谩i n峄� nh瓢 th岷�. V岷瓂 m脿 H芒n Nhi锚n l岷 膽em 膽岷縩 cho t么i nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 r岷 kh谩c, g芒y b脿ng ho脿ng v脿 s峄璶g s峄憈 膽岷縩 m峄ヽ nh峄痭g t芒m h峄搉 s岷痶 膽谩 nh岷 c农ng ph岷 g峄 ng茫.
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H芒n Nhi锚n v峄沬 t瓢 c谩ch l脿 m峄檛 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�, 膽茫 l岷痭g nghe v脿 th岷 hi峄僽 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 trong su峄憈 t谩m n膬m tr峄漣 g岷痭 b贸 v峄沬 ch瓢啤ng tr矛nh ph谩t thanh Khinh phong d岷� tho岷. Kh么ng nh峄痭g v岷瓂 m脿 b脿 c貌n ti岷縩 h脿nh ph峄弉g v岷 h啤n 200 ph峄� n峄�, thu th岷璸 nh峄痭g quy峄僴 s谩ch b铆 m岷璽 c峄 t峄玭g gia 膽矛nh, nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 bi k峄媍h c貌n b峄� 岷﹏ khu岷, nh峄痭g n峄梚 膽au r岷 ri锚ng t瓢 g芒y b脿ng ho脿ng v脿 谩m 岷h 膽岷縩 t峄檛 c霉ng. B脿 膽茫 膽em n峄梚 膽au c峄 ch铆nh m矛nh v脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� kh谩c ph啤i b脿y tr锚n nh峄痭g trang gi岷, tr岷 tr峄, ch芒n th峄眂 v脿 g芒y r煤ng 膽峄檔g 膽岷縩 t岷璶 t芒m can. L峄慽 k峄� chuy峄噉 tuy kh么ng m峄沬 l岷� nh瓢ng 膽谩ng qu媒 峄� ch峄� l脿 r岷 m峄檆 m岷 v脿 ch芒n th峄眂. H芒n Nhi锚n 膽茫 ph谩c h峄峚 n锚n nh峄痭g b峄ヽ ch芒n dung c峄 ph峄� n峄� Trung Hoa b岷眓g m峄檛 c谩i nh矛n tinh t岷� v脿 膽ong 膽岷 s峄� c岷 th么ng. V脿 t峄� 膽贸 ph谩t hi峄噉 ra v岷� 膽岷筽 膽岷� v么 ng岷 trong t芒m h峄搉 c峄 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�, nh瓢 nh峄痭g l峄漣 b脿 hay n贸i: 鈥淧h峄� n峄� l脿 l峄眂 l瓢峄g s谩ng t岷 trong v农 tr峄� n脿y. H峄� 膽em 膽岷縩 cho cu峄檆 s峄憂g c谩i 膽岷筽, c岷 x煤c v脿 s峄� nh岷 c岷. H峄� tinh khi岷縯 v脿 trong s岷h. Ph峄� n峄� l脿 nh峄痭g t岷 v岷璽 tuy峄噒 v峄漣 nh岷鈥︹€�
Trong ti岷縩g Trung 鈥楬岷鈥� c贸 ngh末a l脿 t峄憈, c农ng c贸 ngh末a l脿 h岷h ph煤c. H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa c贸 ngh末a l脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� t峄憈 c峄 Trung Hoa. T么i ngh末 h峄� x峄﹏g 膽谩ng v峄沬 t峄� 鈥楬岷鈥� 膽贸. Nh瓢ng h峄� c贸 h岷h ph煤c kh么ng ? T么i kh么ng bi岷縯. C贸 l岷� nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 岷 膽茫 c贸 cho ri锚ng m矛nh nh峄痭g c芒u tr岷� l峄漣 t峄� r岷 l芒u r峄搃.
December 2, 2020
The stories are, as you would expect, fascinating and harrowing. The writing on the other hand is unforgivably juvenile. These women deserved better. But let's think for a moment about the type of person who would be allowed to become a journalist for state media in a repressive dictatorship. Logically, their selection would have little to do with any investigative talent. Instead, it would hinge on being the type of conformist able to swallow and then parrot propaganda without any intellectual analysis. The author tries hard to talk the reader into believing she's an actual journalist but her incompetence (or, if we're being kind, naive bumbling) is painfully apparent. Example: she spends several days with a woman in a hotel, only to realize AFTERWARDS that she was someone for whom she had been actively searching. This in a country where you absolutely cannot check into a hotel anonymously. It never occurred to this "journalist" to get the woman's name from the front desk. This was not an exception. I had time and time again the same "how can you possibly be so incompetent?!" reaction to her lack of research.
And then there's the writing style, which manages to be simultaneously sterile and cloying. ALL the supposed first person quotes sound exactly the same. Maybe they're not fabricated... It's possible all these women tell their stories in exactly the same way. Or maybe the individual nuances get lost in the translation. But something is definitely off. Having recently read a couple of good books based on first person accounts of misery and oppression (ex. and ) throws into stark contrast how bad this one is. I found this really infuriating because the perspectives of women in China are important and they deserve a much more impactful telling.
And then there's the writing style, which manages to be simultaneously sterile and cloying. ALL the supposed first person quotes sound exactly the same. Maybe they're not fabricated... It's possible all these women tell their stories in exactly the same way. Or maybe the individual nuances get lost in the translation. But something is definitely off. Having recently read a couple of good books based on first person accounts of misery and oppression (ex. and ) throws into stark contrast how bad this one is. I found this really infuriating because the perspectives of women in China are important and they deserve a much more impactful telling.
September 3, 2011
Xinran was the presenter of a radio show in China, during which she would ask women to call her and tell her about themselves. Over the years, she gathered many stories of Chinese women, and this book contains fifteen of them, including her own. It's a diverse collection of stories, including the stories of a lesbian woman, of loveless forced marriages, of hopeless love stories, of women who were raped as children...
They're eye-opening, saddening, horrifying. Xinran's matter of fact tone -- though no doubt partly due to the translation -- doesn't do anything to hide that. I wouldn't say that any story in here is actually a happy one.
Worth reading, though, yes. If you want to learn about Chinese women through the eyes of a Chinese woman, The Good Women of China will definitely help, while at the same time it doesn't dump information on you in big blobs -- the idea is to give these women of China a voice, really, not to educate the West. Xinran doesn't just speak of other women, and her own story runs through it all, with her own thoughts and reactions contextualising the stories.
They're eye-opening, saddening, horrifying. Xinran's matter of fact tone -- though no doubt partly due to the translation -- doesn't do anything to hide that. I wouldn't say that any story in here is actually a happy one.
Worth reading, though, yes. If you want to learn about Chinese women through the eyes of a Chinese woman, The Good Women of China will definitely help, while at the same time it doesn't dump information on you in big blobs -- the idea is to give these women of China a voice, really, not to educate the West. Xinran doesn't just speak of other women, and her own story runs through it all, with her own thoughts and reactions contextualising the stories.
August 26, 2022
4 sao cho nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 m岷痶 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� b岷 h岷h v脿 th锚m 1 sao cho c么ng s峄ヽ c峄 t谩c gi岷�. Ch岷痗 h岷硁 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 th岷� n脿y c农ng kh么ng 铆t nh峄痭g 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 t瓢峄焠g nh瓢 y锚n b矛nh kh谩c, nh瓢ng ch煤ng ta thi岷縰 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 nh瓢 H芒n Nhi锚n - ng瓢峄漣 d谩m 膽谩nh li峄乽 cu峄檆 膽峄漣 m矛nh 膽峄� vi岷縯 ra cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y. C贸 l岷� b瓢峄沜 ngo岷穞 n脿y c峄 cu峄檆 膽峄漣 c么 c农ng 膽茫 膽瓢峄 膽峄媙h s岷祅 khi c么 b岷痶 膽岷 Khinh Phong D岷� Tho岷, b峄焛 v矛:
Vi岷縯 l脿 m峄檛 ki峄僽 k媒 th谩c v脿 c贸 th峄� gi煤p t岷 ra m峄檛 kh么ng gian tr煤 ng峄� cho nh峄痭g suy ngh末 v脿 c岷 x煤c m峄沬. N岷縰 c么 kh么ng vi岷縯 ra nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 n脿y, tr谩i tim c么 s岷� tr脿n 峄� v脿 v峄� tung ra b峄焛 ch煤ng
Ch煤ng ta c贸 th峄� 膽峄峜 膽峄� t瓢峄焠g ni峄噈 v峄� qu谩 kh峄� nh瓢ng 膽峄玭g qu锚n th峄漣 膽岷 n脿o c贸 nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 nghi峄噒 ng茫. Ta c贸 th峄� kh么ng c岷 ph岷 t矛m trong s谩ch v峄�, n贸 c贸 th峄� 峄� g岷 h啤n ta t瓢峄焠g. 膼峄漣 s峄憂g v岷璽 ch岷 v脿 tinh th岷 d霉 膽茫 ph谩t tri峄僴 h啤n bao gi峄� h岷縯, nh瓢ng s峄� v膬n minh v脿 nh芒n v膬n ch瓢a bao gi峄� 膽峄�. V膬n m矛nh l脿 th峄� quy岷縯 膽峄媙h m峄檛 n啤i c贸 膽谩ng s峄憂g hay kh么ng, v脿 n贸 kh么ng d峄盿 v脿o s峄� ph谩t tri峄僴 kinh t岷� hay khoa h峄峜. V脿 m矛nh tin r岷眓g 膽岷縩 ng脿y nay, nh峄痭g th峄� m脿 ng瓢峄漣 d芒n Trung Qu峄慶 n贸i ri锚ng (hay m峄檛 v脿i n啤i tr锚n th岷� gi峄沬) ph岷 g谩nh ch峄媢 c贸 th峄� c貌n kinh kh峄g h啤n nh峄痭g 膽i峄乽 m脿 cu峄憂 s谩ch c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 ghi l岷.
M峄檛 膽i峄乽 ch煤ng ta c贸 th峄� h峄峜 膽瓢峄 l脿 nh峄痭g k岷� 膽峄檆 t脿i c贸 th峄� bi岷縩 s峄� ngu xu岷﹏ c峄 s峄� 膽么ng th脿nh th峄� s峄ヽ m岷h gh锚 s峄�. V脿 ch芒n l媒, ph农 ph脿ng l脿 kh么ng thu峄檆 v峄� tr铆 gi岷� hay th谩nh nh芒n, m脿 thu峄檆 v峄� k岷� m岷h. S峄� thi岷縰 hi峄僽 bi岷縯 c贸 th峄� mang 膽岷縩 m峄檛 th峄� h岷h ph煤c mong manh nh瓢 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 峄� 膼峄搃 H茅t. Nh瓢ng ai l岷 mu峄憂 kh谩t khao m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g nh瓢 th岷�? M峄梚 sinh linh 膽谩ng c贸 m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g 媒 ngh末a v脿 h岷h ph煤c nhi峄乽 h啤n th岷�.
P/S:
M矛nh nh岷璶 th岷 峄� v脿i ch瓢啤ng 膽岷 v脿 t谩c gi岷� hay tr铆ch d岷玭 nh峄痭g c芒u r岷 t岷 th瓢峄漬g c峄 Mao Tr岷h 膼么ng. 膼i峄乽 n脿y c贸 v岷� cho th岷 s峄� nh峄搃 nh茅t t瓢 t瓢峄焠g Mao v脿o 膽岷 m峄檛 th岷� h峄� th峄漣 膽贸 r岷 n岷穘g n峄� 膽岷縩 n峄梚, d霉 膽茫 tho谩t ly Trung Qu峄慶, t谩c gi岷� v岷玭 膽瓢a nh峄痭g 媒 膽贸 v脿o trong s谩ch c峄 m矛nh nh瓢 m峄檛 th贸i quen. M矛nh nh岷璶 th岷 膽岷穋 膽i峄僲 n脿y kh谩 gi峄憂g t谩c gi岷� Sara Imas (V么 c霉ng t脿n nh岷玭, v么 c霉ng y锚u th瓢啤ng) - m峄檛 ng瓢峄漣 Do Th谩i nh瓢ng c贸 qu茫ng th峄漣 gian s峄憂g t岷 Trung Qu峄慶 trong th峄漣 k峄� 膽贸.
Vi岷縯 l脿 m峄檛 ki峄僽 k媒 th谩c v脿 c贸 th峄� gi煤p t岷 ra m峄檛 kh么ng gian tr煤 ng峄� cho nh峄痭g suy ngh末 v脿 c岷 x煤c m峄沬. N岷縰 c么 kh么ng vi岷縯 ra nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 n脿y, tr谩i tim c么 s岷� tr脿n 峄� v脿 v峄� tung ra b峄焛 ch煤ng
Ch煤ng ta c贸 th峄� 膽峄峜 膽峄� t瓢峄焠g ni峄噈 v峄� qu谩 kh峄� nh瓢ng 膽峄玭g qu锚n th峄漣 膽岷 n脿o c贸 nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 nghi峄噒 ng茫. Ta c贸 th峄� kh么ng c岷 ph岷 t矛m trong s谩ch v峄�, n贸 c贸 th峄� 峄� g岷 h啤n ta t瓢峄焠g. 膼峄漣 s峄憂g v岷璽 ch岷 v脿 tinh th岷 d霉 膽茫 ph谩t tri峄僴 h啤n bao gi峄� h岷縯, nh瓢ng s峄� v膬n minh v脿 nh芒n v膬n ch瓢a bao gi峄� 膽峄�. V膬n m矛nh l脿 th峄� quy岷縯 膽峄媙h m峄檛 n啤i c贸 膽谩ng s峄憂g hay kh么ng, v脿 n贸 kh么ng d峄盿 v脿o s峄� ph谩t tri峄僴 kinh t岷� hay khoa h峄峜. V脿 m矛nh tin r岷眓g 膽岷縩 ng脿y nay, nh峄痭g th峄� m脿 ng瓢峄漣 d芒n Trung Qu峄慶 n贸i ri锚ng (hay m峄檛 v脿i n啤i tr锚n th岷� gi峄沬) ph岷 g谩nh ch峄媢 c贸 th峄� c貌n kinh kh峄g h啤n nh峄痭g 膽i峄乽 m脿 cu峄憂 s谩ch c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 ghi l岷.
M峄檛 膽i峄乽 ch煤ng ta c贸 th峄� h峄峜 膽瓢峄 l脿 nh峄痭g k岷� 膽峄檆 t脿i c贸 th峄� bi岷縩 s峄� ngu xu岷﹏ c峄 s峄� 膽么ng th脿nh th峄� s峄ヽ m岷h gh锚 s峄�. V脿 ch芒n l媒, ph农 ph脿ng l脿 kh么ng thu峄檆 v峄� tr铆 gi岷� hay th谩nh nh芒n, m脿 thu峄檆 v峄� k岷� m岷h. S峄� thi岷縰 hi峄僽 bi岷縯 c贸 th峄� mang 膽岷縩 m峄檛 th峄� h岷h ph煤c mong manh nh瓢 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 峄� 膼峄搃 H茅t. Nh瓢ng ai l岷 mu峄憂 kh谩t khao m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g nh瓢 th岷�? M峄梚 sinh linh 膽谩ng c贸 m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g 媒 ngh末a v脿 h岷h ph煤c nhi峄乽 h啤n th岷�.
P/S:
M矛nh nh岷璶 th岷 峄� v脿i ch瓢啤ng 膽岷 v脿 t谩c gi岷� hay tr铆ch d岷玭 nh峄痭g c芒u r岷 t岷 th瓢峄漬g c峄 Mao Tr岷h 膼么ng. 膼i峄乽 n脿y c贸 v岷� cho th岷 s峄� nh峄搃 nh茅t t瓢 t瓢峄焠g Mao v脿o 膽岷 m峄檛 th岷� h峄� th峄漣 膽贸 r岷 n岷穘g n峄� 膽岷縩 n峄梚, d霉 膽茫 tho谩t ly Trung Qu峄慶, t谩c gi岷� v岷玭 膽瓢a nh峄痭g 媒 膽贸 v脿o trong s谩ch c峄 m矛nh nh瓢 m峄檛 th贸i quen. M矛nh nh岷璶 th岷 膽岷穋 膽i峄僲 n脿y kh谩 gi峄憂g t谩c gi岷� Sara Imas (V么 c霉ng t脿n nh岷玭, v么 c霉ng y锚u th瓢啤ng) - m峄檛 ng瓢峄漣 Do Th谩i nh瓢ng c贸 qu茫ng th峄漣 gian s峄憂g t岷 Trung Qu峄慶 trong th峄漣 k峄� 膽贸.
March 6, 2022
B锚n c岷h s峄� ph岷璶 bi th岷 c峄 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�, c谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩 tr峄� th脿nh ch峄� 膽峄� xuy锚n su峄憈 c谩c c芒u chuy峄噉, 岷h h瓢峄焠g s芒u s岷痗 膽岷縩 t岷 c岷� c谩c nh芒n v岷璽 v脿 th岷璵 ch铆 l脿 c岷� t谩c gi岷�. M峄梚 ng瓢峄漣 m峄梚 c岷h nh瓢ng t岷 c岷� 膽峄乽 b峄� c谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩 v霉i d岷璸, x茅 n谩t, v脿 nh岷 ch矛m trong 膽au kh峄�. Ch峄� duy nh岷 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 峄� 膼峄搃 H茅t, t峄搉 t岷 ch峄� nh瓢 m峄檛 v岷璽 d峄g trong nh脿, s峄憂g c谩ch bi峄噒 ho脿n to脿n v峄沬 n峄乶 v膬n minh nh芒n lo岷, m峄沬 t峄� c岷 th岷 m矛nh h岷h ph煤c. Do 膽贸 m矛nh c岷 nh岷璶 cu峄憂 s谩ch d霉 tr矛nh b脿y m峄檛 v岷 膽峄� x茫 h峄檌 nh瓢ng l岷 mang t铆nh ch铆nh tr峄� s芒u cay. C农ng ch铆nh v矛 v岷瓂 m脿 膽峄峜 cu峄憂 s谩ch v峄玜 膽au l貌ng v峄玜 n岷穘g 膽岷 kinh kh峄g.
M矛nh 膽茫 膽峄峜 v峄� nh峄痭g s峄� ph岷璶 ch峄媢 膽脿y 膽o岷� trong c谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩, nh瓢ng ch瓢a bao gi峄� bi岷縯 鈥渘h峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 n么ng d芒n 谩c 膽峄檆 ch峄� mu峄憂 k茅o ng瓢峄漣 kh谩c xu峄憂g b霉n鈥� cu峄慽 c霉ng s岷� ch峄媢 k岷縯 qu岷� g矛. N岷縰 nh芒n qu岷� l脿 c贸 th岷璽, th矛 c谩i nh芒n kinh t峄焟 n脿y bao gi峄� m峄沬 膽岷璾 qu岷� v脿 lo岷 qu岷� g矛 m峄沬 x峄﹏g 膽谩ng v峄沬 nh峄痭g t峄檌 谩c 膽i ng瓢峄 l岷 v峄沬 t铆nh ng瓢峄漣, th岷璵 ch铆 l脿 kh么ng b岷眓g t铆nh v岷璽 nh瓢 v岷瓂.
M矛nh 膽茫 膽峄峜 v峄� nh峄痭g s峄� ph岷璶 ch峄媢 膽脿y 膽o岷� trong c谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩, nh瓢ng ch瓢a bao gi峄� bi岷縯 鈥渘h峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 n么ng d芒n 谩c 膽峄檆 ch峄� mu峄憂 k茅o ng瓢峄漣 kh谩c xu峄憂g b霉n鈥� cu峄慽 c霉ng s岷� ch峄媢 k岷縯 qu岷� g矛. N岷縰 nh芒n qu岷� l脿 c贸 th岷璽, th矛 c谩i nh芒n kinh t峄焟 n脿y bao gi峄� m峄沬 膽岷璾 qu岷� v脿 lo岷 qu岷� g矛 m峄沬 x峄﹏g 膽谩ng v峄沬 nh峄痭g t峄檌 谩c 膽i ng瓢峄 l岷 v峄沬 t铆nh ng瓢峄漣, th岷璵 ch铆 l脿 kh么ng b岷眓g t铆nh v岷璽 nh瓢 v岷瓂.
January 19, 2016
My long-held belief that the roots of extreme sexual repression can be traced to Judea-Christian influences has unraveled completely in the first 10 pages of this book. In George Orwell's 1984 it was obvious that his dsytopia was taken directly from Soviet Russia, but I never understood where Orwell was getting his images of sexual repression and taboos against romantic love. Wherever it came from it was also present in China.
The stories of Chinese women collected in this book will break your heart and make you grateful for any freedom you have, even if it's just the freedom to eat an egg (without first having to bear a son) or to use feminine hygiene products that don't shred your skin. This book has stirred in me the desire to read more about China, especially the period preceding and during the Cultural Revolution. It's hard to believe that I have walked on this earth during a time when women in China were imprisoned for being lesbian or even co-habitating with a man outside of marriage.
With the last three books I've read I have come to appreciate some of the redeeming qualities of my own country. America is wrong in a lot of ways but at least we can fly a kite here, at least we can live a life independent of a man, own property, get a divorce if we need to and take a lesbian lover without having to worry about going to prison for it....I wonder how long it will last?
The stories of Chinese women collected in this book will break your heart and make you grateful for any freedom you have, even if it's just the freedom to eat an egg (without first having to bear a son) or to use feminine hygiene products that don't shred your skin. This book has stirred in me the desire to read more about China, especially the period preceding and during the Cultural Revolution. It's hard to believe that I have walked on this earth during a time when women in China were imprisoned for being lesbian or even co-habitating with a man outside of marriage.
With the last three books I've read I have come to appreciate some of the redeeming qualities of my own country. America is wrong in a lot of ways but at least we can fly a kite here, at least we can live a life independent of a man, own property, get a divorce if we need to and take a lesbian lover without having to worry about going to prison for it....I wonder how long it will last?
October 23, 2018
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賱賽賭 噩賲賱丞 "氐賳毓 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳 "鬲兀孬賷乇賴丕 !
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賮鬲賵睾賱鬲 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 亘乇賳丕賲噩賴丕 丕賱丕匕丕毓賷 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賲賰爻賵乇 毓賵丿賴貙 賮賷 兀亘丕賳 丕賱孬賵乇丞 丕賱孬賯丕賮賷丞 丕賱賲賲鬲丿丞 毓賯丿丕 賲賳 毓丕賲 1966廿賱賶 1976 鬲噩乇毓鬲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賳氐賷亘 丕賱兀爻丿 賲賳 丕賱賲乇購 賵丕賱匕賱 賵丕賱丕賳鬲賴丕賰丕鬲 丨鬲賶 賷賳賮賴 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丨乇爻 丕賱兀丨賲乇 毓賳 兀賳賮爻賴賲 賵賷爻鬲賯賷賲 毓賵丿 丕賱氐賷賳 丕賱毓馗賷賲 . 丨鬲賶 兀賳 丕賱丨乇賷丞 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賮購爻賽丨鬲 賮賯胤 毓丕賲 1983 貙 賷丕 毓匕丕亘賷 賵賷丕 兀賳丕 賱賵 賰賳鬲 賲賵賱賵丿丞 賴賳丕賰 賯亘賱 爻賳賵丕鬲 賯賱賷賱丞 賲賳 賵賱丕丿鬲賷 .
賰丕賳 丕賱賱賴 賮賷 毓賵賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍.
賰賳鬲 兀毓乇賮 兀賳 賲毓馗賲 賲賵丕賯毓 丕賱鬲賵丕氐賱 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷 賲丨噩賵亘丞 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳 貙 兀賵毓夭鬲 匕賱賰 亘廿賳賴丕 丿賵賱丞 賲爻鬲賯賱丞 鬲噩丕乇賷丕 賵賱賴丕 亘丿丕卅賱賴丕 丨鬲賲丕 賵賱賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱賲賳毓 廿賱丕 賱賽 丿賵丕毓賺 丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 亘丨鬲丞 賵鬲卮噩毓賷丕 賱賱丕亘鬲賰丕乇丕鬲 丕賱賵胤賳賷丞 丕賱賲賯賱丿丞 .
賱賽賭 噩賲賱丞 "氐賳毓 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳 "鬲兀孬賷乇賴丕 !
賵賱賲 兀賰賳 兀毓賱賲 賰賲爻鬲賴賱賰 亘爻賷胤 兀賳 丕賱氐賷賳賻 鬲禺賮賷 賵乇丕亍 賵噩賴賴丕 丕賱氐賳丕毓賷 丌禺乇 賯賲毓賷 賱丕 賷乇丨賲 . 廿匕 兀賳 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷丞 賵乇丕亍 丕賱丨噩亘 鬲毓賵丿 賱賲丕囟賷 賲卮賷賳 丿賮賳鬲賴 丕賱氐賷賳 賵賱丕 鬲乇賷丿 兀賳 鬲亘毓孬賴 賲噩丿丿丕 .
廿賱丕 兀賳 "卮賷賳乇丕賳 " 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘賴丕 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 兀賳孬賵賷 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳 "賳爻丕亍 賲賳 丕賱氐賷賳 ... 賯氐氐 賵兀爻乇丕乇 " 鬲賮囟丨 丕賱氐賷賳 毓賱賶 賯賲丞 噩乇賷丿丞/ 廿匕丕毓丞 .
賮鬲賵睾賱鬲 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 亘乇賳丕賲噩賴丕 丕賱丕匕丕毓賷 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賲賰爻賵乇 毓賵丿賴貙 賮賷 兀亘丕賳 丕賱孬賵乇丞 丕賱孬賯丕賮賷丞 丕賱賲賲鬲丿丞 毓賯丿丕 賲賳 毓丕賲 1966廿賱賶 1976 鬲噩乇毓鬲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賳氐賷亘 丕賱兀爻丿 賲賳 丕賱賲乇購 賵丕賱匕賱 賵丕賱丕賳鬲賴丕賰丕鬲 丨鬲賶 賷賳賮賴 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丨乇爻 丕賱兀丨賲乇 毓賳 兀賳賮爻賴賲 賵賷爻鬲賯賷賲 毓賵丿 丕賱氐賷賳 丕賱毓馗賷賲 . 丨鬲賶 兀賳 丕賱丨乇賷丞 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賮購爻賽丨鬲 賮賯胤 毓丕賲 1983 貙 賷丕 毓匕丕亘賷 賵賷丕 兀賳丕 賱賵 賰賳鬲 賲賵賱賵丿丞 賴賳丕賰 賯亘賱 爻賳賵丕鬲 賯賱賷賱丞 賲賳 賵賱丕丿鬲賷 .
賰丕賳 丕賱賱賴 賮賷 毓賵賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍.
January 1, 2025
膼峄峜 c谩i t锚n H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa, c贸 l岷� 膽a ph岷 trong ch煤ng ta s岷� ngh末 膽岷縩 nh峄痭g n峄� anh h霉ng, nh峄痭g con ng瓢峄漣 v末 膽岷. Nh瓢ng kh么ng, 膽芒y l脿 t岷璸 h峄搃 k媒 c峄 nh脿 b谩o H芒n Nhi锚n m脿 qua 膽贸 ch煤ng ta th岷 膽瓢峄 nh峄痭g g贸c k铆n khu岷 nh岷, v脿 c贸 l岷� c农ng 膽au 膽峄沶 nh岷 c峄 h脿ng ngh矛n ph峄� n峄� Trung Hoa t峄玭g b峄� nh岷 ch矛m b峄焛 h峄� t峄 kh岷痗 nghi峄噒 v脿 bi岷縩 膽峄檔g l峄媍h s峄� d峄� d峄檌, 膽岷穋 bi峄噒 l脿 trong th峄漣 k峄� C谩ch m岷g V膬n H贸a. H芒n Nhi锚n 膽茫 膽em n峄梚 膽au c峄 ch铆nh b岷 th芒n b脿, v脿 n峄梚 膽au c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� kh谩c, gi茫i b脿y qua t峄玭g trang gi岷.
Nh峄痭g h峄� t峄 v脿 c谩i thuy岷縯 鈥渢am t貌ng t峄� 膽峄ヽ鈥� 膽茫 v霉i d岷璸 h脿ng ngh矛n ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶. Tr铆 th峄ヽ v脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 c贸 m峄慽 quan h峄� v峄沬 n瓢峄沜 ngo脿i hay t峄玭g l脿m vi峄嘽 trong ch铆nh quy峄乶 tr瓢峄沜 n膬m 1949 膽峄乽 b峄� x岷縫 v脿o th脿nh ph岷 ph岷 C谩ch m岷g. Nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� c贸 con ngo脿i gi谩 th煤 ho岷穋 t矛nh y锚u 膽峄搉g t铆nh b峄� coi l脿 ph岷 ph谩p. V峄沬 c谩i t锚n hoa m峄� 鈥渟峄� m峄噉h m脿 t峄� ch峄ヽ 膼岷g giao cho鈥�, nh峄痭g thi岷縰 n峄� b峄� 茅p g岷� cho nh峄痭g t锚n s末 quan v脿 b岷痶 膽岷 m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g c芒m l岷穘g trong t峄 nh峄. V峄沬 nh峄痭g t锚n s末 quan 岷, 膽脿n b脿 ch峄� c贸 t谩c d峄g th峄廰 m茫n nhu c岷 th芒n x谩c.
膼峄峜 H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa, t么i c岷 膽峄檔g tr瓢峄沜 t矛nh m岷玼 t峄� v脿 nh峄痭g kh谩t khao v峄� t矛nh y锚u v脿 h岷h ph煤c. 膼贸 l脿 t矛nh y锚u chung th峄, ch峄� 膽峄 ng瓢峄漣 y锚u trong kh岷痗 kho岷 c峄 鈥淣g瓢峄漣 膽脿n b脿 ch峄� 膽峄 b峄憂 m瓢啤i l膬m n膬m鈥�; 膽贸 l脿 vi峄嘽 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� m岷 con sau c啤n 膽岷 膽峄媋 ch岷 膽茫 x芒y d峄眓g m峄檛 tr岷 tr岷� 膽峄� nu么i d瓢峄g nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ tr岷� m峄� c么i. T么i t峄ヽ gi岷璶 tr瓢峄沜 c岷h ng瓢峄漣 m岷� m峄檛 m矛nh t岷 t岷 nu么i con kh么n l峄沶 l岷 ph岷 s峄憂g trong b茫i r谩c, h脿ng ng脿y nh矛n l茅n con trai 膽峄� kh峄廼 l脿m phi峄乶 ng瓢峄漣 con trai 膽茫 tr峄� n锚n gi脿u sang.
Khi 膽脿n 么ng tr峄� th脿nh nh峄痭g t锚n cu峄搉g d芒m, nh峄痭g t锚n 膽峄檌 l峄憈 C谩ch m岷g 膽峄� l脿m nh峄痭g vi峄嘽 d啤 b岷﹏, 膽峄沶 h猫n th矛 ph峄� n峄� v岷玭 ph岷 l岷穘g im ch峄媢 膽峄眓g. V矛 h峄� kh么ng c贸 c谩ch b岷 v峄� ch铆nh m矛nh, v脿 c农ng kh么ng ai b岷 v峄� h峄�. L岷 danh ngh末a "c峄憂g hi岷縩 cho C谩ch m岷g, cho 膼岷g", nhi峄乽 c么 b茅 ph岷 ch么n v霉i t瓢啤ng l岷 v脿 h岷h ph煤c c峄 m矛nh trong c谩i 膽峄檔g ch峄゛ nh峄痭g t锚n 岷 d芒m g岷痭 m谩c H峄搉g V峄� binh.
Tr锚n th岷� gian v岷玭 c貌n nh峄痭g s峄� ph岷璶 ph岷 ch峄媢 s峄� tra t岷 t脿n nh岷玭 trong s峄� th峄� 啤 c峄 x茫 h峄檌. S峄憂g tr峄� th脿nh m峄檛 lo岷 tra t岷, gia 膽矛nh tr峄� th脿nh 膽峄媋 ng峄 v脿 m峄檛 c么 b茅 11 tu峄昳 l脿m m峄峣 chuy峄噉 膽峄� m矛nh b峄� b峄噉h, th岷璵 ch铆 ch岷縯 trong b峄噉h vi峄噉, mi峄卬 sao kh么ng c岷 tr峄� v峄� v峄沬 ng瓢峄漣 cha 膽茫 鈥渓岷 d峄g鈥� c么 v脿 ng瓢峄漣 m岷� khuy锚n c么 "V矛 s峄� b矛nh an c峄 c岷� gia 膽矛nh, con ph岷 g岷痭g ch峄媢 膽峄眓g." C么 g谩i Th岷h Lam, con g谩i c峄 m峄檛 vi锚n t瓢峄沶g thua cu峄檆, d霉 b峄� b峄噉h t芒m th岷 m脿 v岷玭 kh么ng tho谩t kh峄廼 vi峄嘽 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ m峄檛 c谩ch d茫 man b峄焛 nh峄痭g t锚n m岷穞 ng瓢峄漣 d岷� th煤. M峄檛 c么 b茅 m瓢峄漣 hai tu峄昳 b峄� b岷痶 c贸c ph岷 l脿m v峄� m峄檛 么ng gi脿; m峄檛 c么 g谩i b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ trong giai 膽o岷 C谩ch m岷g V膬n ho谩 膽茫 tr峄� th脿nh g谩i 膽i岷縨 膽峄� tr岷� th霉 膽脿n 么ng; cu峄檆 s峄憂g c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� n啤i bi锚n c瓢啤ng h岷籵 l谩nh mang tr锚n m矛nh m峄檛 gi谩 tr峄� r岷� m岷,... nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 tr岷 tr峄, nh峄痭g s峄� th岷璽 ph农 ph脿ng 岷 khi岷縩 l貌ng ng瓢峄漣 lay 膽峄檔g m岷h m岷�.
H岷 N峄� Trung Hoa 膽茫 v岷� l岷 h矛nh 岷h m峄檛 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 Trung Qu峄慶 kh谩c, kh么ng ph岷 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 v末 膽岷 v峄沬 h脿ng ng脿n n膬m v膬n hi岷縩, c农ng kh么ng ph岷 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 v峄沬 nh峄痭g k峄� quan k峄� v末 khi岷縩 th岷� gi峄沬 ng瓢峄g m峄�. Trung Qu峄慶 c峄 H芒n Nhi锚n 膽岷 r岷珁 nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 b峄� b峄� qu锚n, nh峄痭g "h岷 n峄�" v岷玭 膽ang s峄憂g t峄玭g ng脿y trong 膽au th瓢啤ng - c贸 ng瓢峄漣 ch峄媢 膽峄眓g, c贸 ng瓢峄漣 膽茫 b峄� cu峄檆 nh瓢ng nhi峄乽 ng瓢峄漣 v岷玭 膽ang c峄� g岷痭g v瓢啤n t峄沬 t瓢啤ng lai.
Nh峄痭g h峄� t峄 v脿 c谩i thuy岷縯 鈥渢am t貌ng t峄� 膽峄ヽ鈥� 膽茫 v霉i d岷璸 h脿ng ngh矛n ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶. Tr铆 th峄ヽ v脿 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 c贸 m峄慽 quan h峄� v峄沬 n瓢峄沜 ngo脿i hay t峄玭g l脿m vi峄嘽 trong ch铆nh quy峄乶 tr瓢峄沜 n膬m 1949 膽峄乽 b峄� x岷縫 v脿o th脿nh ph岷 ph岷 C谩ch m岷g. Nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� c贸 con ngo脿i gi谩 th煤 ho岷穋 t矛nh y锚u 膽峄搉g t铆nh b峄� coi l脿 ph岷 ph谩p. V峄沬 c谩i t锚n hoa m峄� 鈥渟峄� m峄噉h m脿 t峄� ch峄ヽ 膼岷g giao cho鈥�, nh峄痭g thi岷縰 n峄� b峄� 茅p g岷� cho nh峄痭g t锚n s末 quan v脿 b岷痶 膽岷 m峄檛 cu峄檆 s峄憂g c芒m l岷穘g trong t峄 nh峄. V峄沬 nh峄痭g t锚n s末 quan 岷, 膽脿n b脿 ch峄� c贸 t谩c d峄g th峄廰 m茫n nhu c岷 th芒n x谩c.
膼峄峜 H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa, t么i c岷 膽峄檔g tr瓢峄沜 t矛nh m岷玼 t峄� v脿 nh峄痭g kh谩t khao v峄� t矛nh y锚u v脿 h岷h ph煤c. 膼贸 l脿 t矛nh y锚u chung th峄, ch峄� 膽峄 ng瓢峄漣 y锚u trong kh岷痗 kho岷 c峄 鈥淣g瓢峄漣 膽脿n b脿 ch峄� 膽峄 b峄憂 m瓢啤i l膬m n膬m鈥�; 膽贸 l脿 vi峄嘽 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� m岷 con sau c啤n 膽岷 膽峄媋 ch岷 膽茫 x芒y d峄眓g m峄檛 tr岷 tr岷� 膽峄� nu么i d瓢峄g nh峄痭g 膽峄゛ tr岷� m峄� c么i. T么i t峄ヽ gi岷璶 tr瓢峄沜 c岷h ng瓢峄漣 m岷� m峄檛 m矛nh t岷 t岷 nu么i con kh么n l峄沶 l岷 ph岷 s峄憂g trong b茫i r谩c, h脿ng ng脿y nh矛n l茅n con trai 膽峄� kh峄廼 l脿m phi峄乶 ng瓢峄漣 con trai 膽茫 tr峄� n锚n gi脿u sang.
Khi 膽脿n 么ng tr峄� th脿nh nh峄痭g t锚n cu峄搉g d芒m, nh峄痭g t锚n 膽峄檌 l峄憈 C谩ch m岷g 膽峄� l脿m nh峄痭g vi峄嘽 d啤 b岷﹏, 膽峄沶 h猫n th矛 ph峄� n峄� v岷玭 ph岷 l岷穘g im ch峄媢 膽峄眓g. V矛 h峄� kh么ng c贸 c谩ch b岷 v峄� ch铆nh m矛nh, v脿 c农ng kh么ng ai b岷 v峄� h峄�. L岷 danh ngh末a "c峄憂g hi岷縩 cho C谩ch m岷g, cho 膼岷g", nhi峄乽 c么 b茅 ph岷 ch么n v霉i t瓢啤ng l岷 v脿 h岷h ph煤c c峄 m矛nh trong c谩i 膽峄檔g ch峄゛ nh峄痭g t锚n 岷 d芒m g岷痭 m谩c H峄搉g V峄� binh.
Tr锚n th岷� gian v岷玭 c貌n nh峄痭g s峄� ph岷璶 ph岷 ch峄媢 s峄� tra t岷 t脿n nh岷玭 trong s峄� th峄� 啤 c峄 x茫 h峄檌. S峄憂g tr峄� th脿nh m峄檛 lo岷 tra t岷, gia 膽矛nh tr峄� th脿nh 膽峄媋 ng峄 v脿 m峄檛 c么 b茅 11 tu峄昳 l脿m m峄峣 chuy峄噉 膽峄� m矛nh b峄� b峄噉h, th岷璵 ch铆 ch岷縯 trong b峄噉h vi峄噉, mi峄卬 sao kh么ng c岷 tr峄� v峄� v峄沬 ng瓢峄漣 cha 膽茫 鈥渓岷 d峄g鈥� c么 v脿 ng瓢峄漣 m岷� khuy锚n c么 "V矛 s峄� b矛nh an c峄 c岷� gia 膽矛nh, con ph岷 g岷痭g ch峄媢 膽峄眓g." C么 g谩i Th岷h Lam, con g谩i c峄 m峄檛 vi锚n t瓢峄沶g thua cu峄檆, d霉 b峄� b峄噉h t芒m th岷 m脿 v岷玭 kh么ng tho谩t kh峄廼 vi峄嘽 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ m峄檛 c谩ch d茫 man b峄焛 nh峄痭g t锚n m岷穞 ng瓢峄漣 d岷� th煤. M峄檛 c么 b茅 m瓢峄漣 hai tu峄昳 b峄� b岷痶 c贸c ph岷 l脿m v峄� m峄檛 么ng gi脿; m峄檛 c么 g谩i b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ trong giai 膽o岷 C谩ch m岷g V膬n ho谩 膽茫 tr峄� th脿nh g谩i 膽i岷縨 膽峄� tr岷� th霉 膽脿n 么ng; cu峄檆 s峄憂g c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� n啤i bi锚n c瓢啤ng h岷籵 l谩nh mang tr锚n m矛nh m峄檛 gi谩 tr峄� r岷� m岷,... nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 tr岷 tr峄, nh峄痭g s峄� th岷璽 ph农 ph脿ng 岷 khi岷縩 l貌ng ng瓢峄漣 lay 膽峄檔g m岷h m岷�.
H岷 N峄� Trung Hoa 膽茫 v岷� l岷 h矛nh 岷h m峄檛 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 Trung Qu峄慶 kh谩c, kh么ng ph岷 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 v末 膽岷 v峄沬 h脿ng ng脿n n膬m v膬n hi岷縩, c农ng kh么ng ph岷 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 v峄沬 nh峄痭g k峄� quan k峄� v末 khi岷縩 th岷� gi峄沬 ng瓢峄g m峄�. Trung Qu峄慶 c峄 H芒n Nhi锚n 膽岷 r岷珁 nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 b峄� b峄� qu锚n, nh峄痭g "h岷 n峄�" v岷玭 膽ang s峄憂g t峄玭g ng脿y trong 膽au th瓢啤ng - c贸 ng瓢峄漣 ch峄媢 膽峄眓g, c贸 ng瓢峄漣 膽茫 b峄� cu峄檆 nh瓢ng nhi峄乽 ng瓢峄漣 v岷玭 膽ang c峄� g岷痭g v瓢啤n t峄沬 t瓢啤ng lai.
May 17, 2008
This is one of the most tragic books I have ever read. Story after story of shattered lives - simply by being born female. But I recommend it to all women, so that we don't forget how far the world still needs to go and that we who live more comfortable lives don't stay silent. We MUST speak up for those who are powerless to speak for themselves.
November 19, 2022
Cinco estrelas inesquec铆veis, dolorosas, angustiantes. Cinco estrelas em homenagem a estas mulheres que sofreram horrores 脿 custa de um sistema que o permitiu e que muitas vezes perpetrou tais a莽玫es conden谩veis...
Apesar de ser muito impactante e de haver certos testemunhos de mulheres que mexem connosco de uma tal forma que chega ao ponto de nausear , leiam! Leiam por favor!
Um livro que d谩 a voz a muitas mulheres, oi莽am -nas e sintam-nas nos vossos cora莽玫es.
础迟别苍莽茫辞!
N茫o aconselho este livro a quem est谩 numa fase emocionalmente fr谩gil, e a mulheres gr谩vidas...
Apesar de ser muito impactante e de haver certos testemunhos de mulheres que mexem connosco de uma tal forma que chega ao ponto de nausear , leiam! Leiam por favor!
Um livro que d谩 a voz a muitas mulheres, oi莽am -nas e sintam-nas nos vossos cora莽玫es.
础迟别苍莽茫辞!
N茫o aconselho este livro a quem est谩 numa fase emocionalmente fr谩gil, e a mulheres gr谩vidas...
October 30, 2021
Wow. What a sobering read. Now, it is no secret that women across the world have gotten the shaft throughout history, in pretty much every country/culture around the world, but some grind it into their women more than others, and China is a prime example of this.
There are fascinating glimpses into the Cultural Revolution in this book and the way the Communist Party so negatively impacted the lives of countless innocent people. I read 'Life and Death in Shangai' by Nien Cheng not too long before this, so this book and that one make for a fascinating read about life in China under Chairman Mao's control.
The collection of stories here is quite heartbreaking, especially the final one, about the women of Shouting Hill. Yes, Xinran says these women are happy, but the story really illustrates the truth of 'ignorance is bliss' when you consider how fucking hard these women have it. They're not even allowed rice (a privilege reserved for the men of Shouting Hill for all the hard work they do farming, even though the lot of the woman is arguably just as hard if not more than the men)
The thing with the leaves, and prolapsed uteruses (oh dear god why) sounds absolutely nightmarish, but again, these women are happy because they literally do not know any better. I had to sit and think to myself for a bit of time after reading this story.
Water is so rare to the people of Shouting Hill because they live right at the fringes of the desert that makes up much of Northwestern China, in the loess (I actually learned a new word that day, I had no idea what loess was before this!) that I can not help but shudder when I think of their hygiene standards, and how extremely lucky I am to have access to a hot-water shower and sanitary napkins!
It truly is sobering to think about how the typical American/European female views standards of living when it comes to things like this. Even the poorest people in first-world nations still have access to running water - if not necessarily hot, it's still clean water that they don't have to hike HOURS for - and even if they don't have toilet paper, they can still use newspaper or other stuff, but that kind of thing simply does not exist in Shouting Hill or other villages like it located amongst the loesses of China.
One thing I would have liked in this book is a story from a woman who has/had bound feet. Back in the 1990's, there was still a share of old women who had bound feet, and I wish Xinran had included such a story, especially as this book is less than 300 pages. Nonetheless, this book is fascinating and educational, and I highly recommend it. 4.5/5 stars.
There are fascinating glimpses into the Cultural Revolution in this book and the way the Communist Party so negatively impacted the lives of countless innocent people. I read 'Life and Death in Shangai' by Nien Cheng not too long before this, so this book and that one make for a fascinating read about life in China under Chairman Mao's control.
The collection of stories here is quite heartbreaking, especially the final one, about the women of Shouting Hill. Yes, Xinran says these women are happy, but the story really illustrates the truth of 'ignorance is bliss' when you consider how fucking hard these women have it. They're not even allowed rice (a privilege reserved for the men of Shouting Hill for all the hard work they do farming, even though the lot of the woman is arguably just as hard if not more than the men)
The thing with the leaves, and prolapsed uteruses (oh dear god why) sounds absolutely nightmarish, but again, these women are happy because they literally do not know any better. I had to sit and think to myself for a bit of time after reading this story.
Water is so rare to the people of Shouting Hill because they live right at the fringes of the desert that makes up much of Northwestern China, in the loess (I actually learned a new word that day, I had no idea what loess was before this!) that I can not help but shudder when I think of their hygiene standards, and how extremely lucky I am to have access to a hot-water shower and sanitary napkins!
It truly is sobering to think about how the typical American/European female views standards of living when it comes to things like this. Even the poorest people in first-world nations still have access to running water - if not necessarily hot, it's still clean water that they don't have to hike HOURS for - and even if they don't have toilet paper, they can still use newspaper or other stuff, but that kind of thing simply does not exist in Shouting Hill or other villages like it located amongst the loesses of China.
One thing I would have liked in this book is a story from a woman who has/had bound feet. Back in the 1990's, there was still a share of old women who had bound feet, and I wish Xinran had included such a story, especially as this book is less than 300 pages. Nonetheless, this book is fascinating and educational, and I highly recommend it. 4.5/5 stars.
August 17, 2016
" 兀賷 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱亘賱丿丕賳 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 丕賱亘賱丿 爻賳丞 1976責 賲丿賷賳丞 賰亘賷乇賴 鬲賯亘毓 亘賷賳 丕賱乇賰丕賲 賵 孬賱丕孬賲卅丞 兀賱賮 卮禺氐 賮賯丿賵丕 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 貙 賵 賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賲 賷毓賱賲 兀丨丿 亘丕賱兀賲乇 . 賰賲 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱氐賷賳 賲鬲禺賱賾賮丞 !
賮毓賱丕賸 兀賳丕 賲毓賰 賷丕 毓夭賷夭鬲賷 卮賷賳乇丕賳 賰賲 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱氐賷賳 賲鬲禺賱賮賴 亘卮賾丿賴 !
" 賴匕賴 賰丕賳鬲 兀賰孬乇 丕賱賲賵丕囟毓 廿賷賱丕賲丕賸 賮賷 賳賮爻賷 !! "
賯丿賲鬲 卮賷賳乇丕賳 亘乇賳丕賲噩丕賸 廿匕丕毓賷丕賸 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳 " 賰賱賲丕鬲 毓賱賶 賳爻賷賲 丕賱賱賷賱 " 丕賱亘乇賳丕賲噩 丕賱賲爻丕卅賷 丕賱賷賵賲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 鬲丿毓賵 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賱賱廿鬲氐丕賱 賵 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 兀賳賮爻賴賳 ,,
賴賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲購亘丨乇 " 卮賷賳乇丕賳 " 賲毓賳丕 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 賵 賲丕賷鬲毓乇囟 賱賴賳 賲賳 賲丨賳 賵 氐毓賵亘丕鬲 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴賳 賵 賰賷賮 廿爻鬲胤毓賳 兀賳 賷鬲睾賱亘賳 毓賱賶 鬲賱賰 丕賱馗乇賵賮 亘賯賵賴 賵 卮噩丕毓賴 賵 氐亘乇
賰鬲丕亘 賵丕賯毓賷 噩丿丕賸 賱賲賳 賷乇賷丿 丕賱廿亘丨丕乇 賵 丕賱鬲毓賲賯 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 賵 匕賱賰 亘兀爻賱賵亘 噩賲賷賱 賵 卮賮丕賮 ...
賲賳 兀噩賲賱 丕賱賲賵丕囟賷毓 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 " 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賱賵丕鬲賷 賯丕爻賷賳 賲賳 丕賱夭賱夭丕賱 "
賮賯丿 乇氐丿鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘賴 賮賷賴 鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇賴 賱賯丿 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 賲丐賱賲丕賸 亘丨賯 ..
賰匕賱賰 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 丕賱兀禺賷乇 " 賳爻丕亍 鬲賱 丕賱氐賷丕丨 "
賰丕賳 噩丿丕賸 賲丐賱賲 , 賷丕 廿賱賴賷 賰賷賮 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賷毓卮賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘丕卅爻賴 , 賮毓賱丕賸 丨夭賳鬲購 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賱丨丕賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳爻賵丞 ,,
賰丕賳鬲 賮乇氐賴 乇丌卅毓賴 賱賰賷 兀鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 丕賱卮毓亘 丕賱氐賷賳賷 賵 鬲丨丿賷丿丕賸 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 ,, 兀毓鬲乇賮 兀賳賳賷 兀丨亘亘鬲賴賳賾 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賮賱賯丿 賵噩丿鬲賴賳 氐亘賵乇丕鬲 賵 賲賰丕賮丨丕鬲 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱毓賷卮 ,"
兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻乇丿 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 乇丌卅毓 賵 賲卮賵賾賯 噩丿丕賸 , 賮毓賱丕賸 賰鬲丕亘 噩賲賷賱 噩丿丕賸 賵 賷爻鬲丨賯 丕賱賯乇丌亍賴 ,,
卮賰乇丕賸 " 卮賷賳乇丕賳 " 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱毓馗賷賲 "
賮毓賱丕賸 兀賳丕 賲毓賰 賷丕 毓夭賷夭鬲賷 卮賷賳乇丕賳 賰賲 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱氐賷賳 賲鬲禺賱賮賴 亘卮賾丿賴 !
" 賴匕賴 賰丕賳鬲 兀賰孬乇 丕賱賲賵丕囟毓 廿賷賱丕賲丕賸 賮賷 賳賮爻賷 !! "
賯丿賲鬲 卮賷賳乇丕賳 亘乇賳丕賲噩丕賸 廿匕丕毓賷丕賸 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳 " 賰賱賲丕鬲 毓賱賶 賳爻賷賲 丕賱賱賷賱 " 丕賱亘乇賳丕賲噩 丕賱賲爻丕卅賷 丕賱賷賵賲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 鬲丿毓賵 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賱賱廿鬲氐丕賱 賵 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 兀賳賮爻賴賳 ,,
賴賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲購亘丨乇 " 卮賷賳乇丕賳 " 賲毓賳丕 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 賵 賲丕賷鬲毓乇囟 賱賴賳 賲賳 賲丨賳 賵 氐毓賵亘丕鬲 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴賳 賵 賰賷賮 廿爻鬲胤毓賳 兀賳 賷鬲睾賱亘賳 毓賱賶 鬲賱賰 丕賱馗乇賵賮 亘賯賵賴 賵 卮噩丕毓賴 賵 氐亘乇
賰鬲丕亘 賵丕賯毓賷 噩丿丕賸 賱賲賳 賷乇賷丿 丕賱廿亘丨丕乇 賵 丕賱鬲毓賲賯 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 賵 匕賱賰 亘兀爻賱賵亘 噩賲賷賱 賵 卮賮丕賮 ...
賲賳 兀噩賲賱 丕賱賲賵丕囟賷毓 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 " 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱賱賵丕鬲賷 賯丕爻賷賳 賲賳 丕賱夭賱夭丕賱 "
賮賯丿 乇氐丿鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘賴 賮賷賴 鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇賴 賱賯丿 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 賲丐賱賲丕賸 亘丨賯 ..
賰匕賱賰 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 丕賱兀禺賷乇 " 賳爻丕亍 鬲賱 丕賱氐賷丕丨 "
賰丕賳 噩丿丕賸 賲丐賱賲 , 賷丕 廿賱賴賷 賰賷賮 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賷毓卮賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘丕卅爻賴 , 賮毓賱丕賸 丨夭賳鬲購 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賱丨丕賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳爻賵丞 ,,
賰丕賳鬲 賮乇氐賴 乇丌卅毓賴 賱賰賷 兀鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 丕賱卮毓亘 丕賱氐賷賳賷 賵 鬲丨丿賷丿丕賸 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賱氐賷賳賷丕鬲 ,, 兀毓鬲乇賮 兀賳賳賷 兀丨亘亘鬲賴賳賾 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賮賱賯丿 賵噩丿鬲賴賳 氐亘賵乇丕鬲 賵 賲賰丕賮丨丕鬲 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱毓賷卮 ,"
兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻乇丿 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 乇丌卅毓 賵 賲卮賵賾賯 噩丿丕賸 , 賮毓賱丕賸 賰鬲丕亘 噩賲賷賱 噩丿丕賸 賵 賷爻鬲丨賯 丕賱賯乇丌亍賴 ,,
卮賰乇丕賸 " 卮賷賳乇丕賳 " 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱毓馗賷賲 "
August 14, 2018
#2018PopsugarReadingChallenge
29. A book about feminism
M峄檛 g贸c nh矛n kh谩c v峄� l峄媍h s峄� Trung Qu峄慶 m脿 tr瓢峄沜 gi峄� t么i ch岷硁g h峄� bi岷縯 膽岷縩. T么i ch岷硁g th峄� h矛nh dung 膽瓢峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 膽茫 ph岷 kh峄� s峄� 膽岷縩 ng岷 n脿o 膽峄� 膽瓢峄 tr峄� n锚n b矛nh 膽岷硁g nh瓢 ng脿y h么m nay. T峄玭g c芒u truy峄噉, t峄玭g m岷h 膽峄漣 膽峄乽 th岷玬 膽岷玬 n瓢峄沜 m岷痶 b峄焛 nh峄痭g 膽au th瓢啤ng tang t贸c trong th峄漣 k矛 C谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩. Ai c贸 th峄� ng峄� nh峄痭g con ng瓢峄漣 H峄搉g v峄� b矛nh 膽岷 di峄噉 cho ch铆nh 膼岷g l岷 c贸 th峄� l脿m nh峄痭g h脿nh 膽峄檔g kh么ng c贸 t铆nh ng瓢峄漣 nh瓢 v岷瓂. T么i t峄� h峄廼 bao nhi锚u ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 膽茫 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ t脿n nh岷玭, m峄檛 s峄� ng瓢峄漣 b峄� bu峄檆 ph岷 ph谩t 膽i锚n v矛 kh么ng ch峄媢 n峄昳 膽瓢峄 s峄� t脿n b岷, h峄� b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ b峄焛 ch铆nh nh峄痭g cha, nh峄痭g anh c峄 m矛nh nh瓢 H峄搉g Tuy岷縯 hay b峄� c瓢峄g hi岷縫 t岷璸 th峄� 膽岷縩 ph谩t 膽i锚n ph谩t d岷 nh瓢 Th岷h L芒m. D霉 kh么ng th峄� hi峄僽 膽瓢峄 h岷縯 nh峄痭g n峄昳 膽au m脿 h峄� ph岷 ch峄媢 膽峄眓g, nh瓢ng m峄梚 khi 膽峄峜 xong m峄梚 c芒u chuy峄噉, t么i 膽峄乽 ph岷 d峄玭g l岷 v矛 t铆nh 膽au th瓢啤ng v脿 t脿n nh岷玭 c峄 n贸.
Trung Qu峄慶 th峄漣 膽贸 膽岷珁 r岷珁 nh瓢ng b岷 c么ng 膽峄慽 v峄沬 th芒n ph岷璶 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�. C贸 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 b峄� s岷痯 膽岷穞 nh峄痭g cu峄檆 h么n nh芒n 茅p bu峄檆 n啤i m脿 ch岷硁g h峄� c贸 h岷h ph煤c, nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄�, ng瓢峄漣 m岷� ch峄� l脿 c么ng c峄� 膽峄� ti岷縩 l锚n c峄 ng瓢峄漣 膽脿n 么ng. C贸 nh峄痭g c么 g谩i b峄� c瓢峄g hi岷縫 ngay t峄� khi c貌n nh峄� nh瓢 Hoa Nhi b峄焛 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 H峄搉g v峄� qu芒n trong c谩i g峄峣 l脿 nh贸m h峄峜 t岷璸. C贸 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 b峄� bu峄檆 t峄檌 ph岷 c谩ch m岷g v脿 ph岷 s峄憂g kh峄� c峄眂 su峄憈 bao nhi锚u n膬m kh么ng k峄� xi岷縯. V脿 c农ng c贸 nh峄痭g b脿 m岷� ki锚n c瓢峄漬g v瓢峄 qua n峄梚 膽au m岷 m谩t sau tr岷璶 膽峄檔g 膽岷 kinh ho脿ng 峄� 膼瓢峄漬g S啤n 膽峄� x芒y d峄眓g l锚n m峄檛 tr岷 tr岷� t矛nh th瓢啤ng.
T么i th岷璽 kh么ng th峄� t瓢峄焠g t瓢峄g 膽瓢峄 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 膽贸 l脿 th峄眂, nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 膽贸 v脿 h脿ng tr膬m m岷h 膽峄漣 b峄� th瓢啤ng c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Hoa kh谩c.
H峄� th岷璽 s峄� l脿 nh峄痭g H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa.
P/s: Sau bao nhi锚u c芒u truy峄噉 t么i 膽茫 膽峄峜 qua, r峄憈 cu峄檆 t么i v岷玭 ch岷硁g hi峄僽 t矛nh y锚u l脿 g矛 v脿 li峄噓 c贸 t峄搉 t岷 t矛nh y锚u 膽铆ch th峄眂 nh瓢 v膬n ch瓢啤ng v岷玭 m么 t岷�? Li峄噓 c贸 t峄搉 t岷 c芒u truy峄噉 nh瓢 c峄 c么 T末nh Di v脿 C峄� 膼岷 th岷璽 hay kh么ng?
29. A book about feminism
M峄檛 g贸c nh矛n kh谩c v峄� l峄媍h s峄� Trung Qu峄慶 m脿 tr瓢峄沜 gi峄� t么i ch岷硁g h峄� bi岷縯 膽岷縩. T么i ch岷硁g th峄� h矛nh dung 膽瓢峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 膽茫 ph岷 kh峄� s峄� 膽岷縩 ng岷 n脿o 膽峄� 膽瓢峄 tr峄� n锚n b矛nh 膽岷硁g nh瓢 ng脿y h么m nay. T峄玭g c芒u truy峄噉, t峄玭g m岷h 膽峄漣 膽峄乽 th岷玬 膽岷玬 n瓢峄沜 m岷痶 b峄焛 nh峄痭g 膽au th瓢啤ng tang t贸c trong th峄漣 k矛 C谩ch m岷g v膬n ho谩. Ai c贸 th峄� ng峄� nh峄痭g con ng瓢峄漣 H峄搉g v峄� b矛nh 膽岷 di峄噉 cho ch铆nh 膼岷g l岷 c贸 th峄� l脿m nh峄痭g h脿nh 膽峄檔g kh么ng c贸 t铆nh ng瓢峄漣 nh瓢 v岷瓂. T么i t峄� h峄廼 bao nhi锚u ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� 膽茫 b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ t脿n nh岷玭, m峄檛 s峄� ng瓢峄漣 b峄� bu峄檆 ph岷 ph谩t 膽i锚n v矛 kh么ng ch峄媢 n峄昳 膽瓢峄 s峄� t脿n b岷, h峄� b峄� c瓢峄g b峄ヽ b峄焛 ch铆nh nh峄痭g cha, nh峄痭g anh c峄 m矛nh nh瓢 H峄搉g Tuy岷縯 hay b峄� c瓢峄g hi岷縫 t岷璸 th峄� 膽岷縩 ph谩t 膽i锚n ph谩t d岷 nh瓢 Th岷h L芒m. D霉 kh么ng th峄� hi峄僽 膽瓢峄 h岷縯 nh峄痭g n峄昳 膽au m脿 h峄� ph岷 ch峄媢 膽峄眓g, nh瓢ng m峄梚 khi 膽峄峜 xong m峄梚 c芒u chuy峄噉, t么i 膽峄乽 ph岷 d峄玭g l岷 v矛 t铆nh 膽au th瓢啤ng v脿 t脿n nh岷玭 c峄 n贸.
Trung Qu峄慶 th峄漣 膽贸 膽岷珁 r岷珁 nh瓢ng b岷 c么ng 膽峄慽 v峄沬 th芒n ph岷璶 ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄�. C贸 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 b峄� s岷痯 膽岷穞 nh峄痭g cu峄檆 h么n nh芒n 茅p bu峄檆 n啤i m脿 ch岷硁g h峄� c贸 h岷h ph煤c, nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄�, ng瓢峄漣 m岷� ch峄� l脿 c么ng c峄� 膽峄� ti岷縩 l锚n c峄 ng瓢峄漣 膽脿n 么ng. C贸 nh峄痭g c么 g谩i b峄� c瓢峄g hi岷縫 ngay t峄� khi c貌n nh峄� nh瓢 Hoa Nhi b峄焛 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 H峄搉g v峄� qu芒n trong c谩i g峄峣 l脿 nh贸m h峄峜 t岷璸. C贸 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 b峄� bu峄檆 t峄檌 ph岷 c谩ch m岷g v脿 ph岷 s峄憂g kh峄� c峄眂 su峄憈 bao nhi锚u n膬m kh么ng k峄� xi岷縯. V脿 c农ng c贸 nh峄痭g b脿 m岷� ki锚n c瓢峄漬g v瓢峄 qua n峄梚 膽au m岷 m谩t sau tr岷璶 膽峄檔g 膽岷 kinh ho脿ng 峄� 膼瓢峄漬g S啤n 膽峄� x芒y d峄眓g l锚n m峄檛 tr岷 tr岷� t矛nh th瓢啤ng.
T么i th岷璽 kh么ng th峄� t瓢峄焠g t瓢峄g 膽瓢峄 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 膽贸 l脿 th峄眂, nh峄痭g m岷h 膽峄漣 膽贸 v脿 h脿ng tr膬m m岷h 膽峄漣 b峄� th瓢啤ng c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� Trung Hoa kh谩c.
H峄� th岷璽 s峄� l脿 nh峄痭g H岷 n峄� Trung Hoa.
P/s: Sau bao nhi锚u c芒u truy峄噉 t么i 膽茫 膽峄峜 qua, r峄憈 cu峄檆 t么i v岷玭 ch岷硁g hi峄僽 t矛nh y锚u l脿 g矛 v脿 li峄噓 c贸 t峄搉 t岷 t矛nh y锚u 膽铆ch th峄眂 nh瓢 v膬n ch瓢啤ng v岷玭 m么 t岷�? Li峄噓 c贸 t峄搉 t岷 c芒u truy峄噉 nh瓢 c峄 c么 T末nh Di v脿 C峄� 膼岷 th岷璽 hay kh么ng?
May 21, 2017
A collection of different true stories from different women, this book is written with the aim of bringing lost voices of Chinese women to the world. In spite of the emancipation of women due to communism, and in spite of the fact that most Chinese women work in positions equal to that of men, there still exists an enormous gender bias in Chinese society.
This book explores the stories of women during the Cultural Revolution. I had no idea it was so bad! There are many stories of women being sold to higher officers, raped, imprisoned, in many cases, merely for being a woman. There is also a strong gender bias and a preference for sons in the culture which is brought out in many of the stories, and indeed is quite visible in China because of the practices of abandonment or murder of female babies. Many stories are not specific to women, but they are here because it happened to women.
Xinran belongs to a previous generation, and herself has faced many problems, some of which she describes in this book. It is clear that mere financial emancipation is just the first step to gender equality. There is so much more to do, especially with providing choices for women, and to ensure that their needs are being met on a level equal to that of men.
This book explores the stories of women during the Cultural Revolution. I had no idea it was so bad! There are many stories of women being sold to higher officers, raped, imprisoned, in many cases, merely for being a woman. There is also a strong gender bias and a preference for sons in the culture which is brought out in many of the stories, and indeed is quite visible in China because of the practices of abandonment or murder of female babies. Many stories are not specific to women, but they are here because it happened to women.
Xinran belongs to a previous generation, and herself has faced many problems, some of which she describes in this book. It is clear that mere financial emancipation is just the first step to gender equality. There is so much more to do, especially with providing choices for women, and to ensure that their needs are being met on a level equal to that of men.
January 29, 2008
While the stories exemplifying the plight of women in China are interesting, as is the insight into what it means to be a journalist in China, I ultimately found the book a little annoying. The author is a participant in many of the stories, and often she is a heroic participant. The story featuring the author as the object of a mentally disturbed lesbian's romantic obsession bordered on ridiculous. The author seemed to "explain" the woman's lesbianism by reference to her traumatized childhood, and did so in a way that hinted this could be the explanation for non-heterosexual behavior in general. The combination of presumption and self-aggrandizement laced through stories purported to be about other women is awkward, misguided and misplaced. Additionally, the unusually high incidence of coincidence in these stories, again often involving the author's intervention, left me a little wary of the book's accuracy.
February 16, 2020
Th谩ng 1/2020: 膽峄峜 l岷 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄 ph峄� n峄� Trung Qu峄慶 n脿y, t么i l岷 c岷 th岷 m矛nh th岷璽 may m岷痭 v矛 sinh ra l脿 nam, v矛 l脿m phu n峄� 膽茫 kh峄�, th矛 l脿m ph峄� n峄� 峄� nh峄痭g n瓢峄沜 脕 膼么ng c脿ng kh峄� h啤n, v脿 膽贸 ch岷硁g ph岷 膽贸 l脿 kh峄焛 ngu峄搉 c峄 t矛nh y锚u, r岷眓g nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ph峄� n峄� xung quanh ta x峄﹏g 膽谩ng 膽瓢峄 y锚u th瓢啤ng nhi峄乽 v脿 nhi峄乽 h啤n n峄痑.
November 24, 2020
T么i hi峄僽 t岷 sao t谩c gi岷� H芒n Nhi锚n ph岷 r峄漣 b峄� qu锚 h瓢啤ng v脿 c么ng vi峄嘽 y锚u th铆ch 膽峄� vi岷縯 n锚n cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y, v矛 b脿 b峄� th么i th煤c ph岷 vi岷縯 膽峄� l脿m n啤i k媒 th谩c cho nh峄痭g c岷 x煤c v脿 suy ngh末, n岷縰 kh么ng vi岷縯 ra, tr谩i tim b脿 s岷� tr脿n 峄� v脿 v峄� tung ra.
B峄� qua c谩i nh矛n h岷眓 g芒n m谩u l锚n m峄檛 th峄漣 k峄� kh峄g ho岷g c峄 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 Trung Hoa, khi m脿 v峄� th岷� ch铆nh tr峄�, n峄乶 t岷g t瓢 t瓢峄焠g v脿 gia 膽矛nh quy岷縯 膽峄媙h c谩ch cu峄檆 膽峄漣 膽峄慽 x峄� v峄沬 b岷, nguy锚n nh芒n c峄 nh峄痭g c岷h 膽峄漣 n脿y kh么ng ch峄� 膽啤n gi岷 nh瓢 th岷�. N贸 c貌n 膽岷縩 t峄� t瓢 t瓢峄焠g tr峄峮g nam khinh n峄� (Nho gi谩o) in s芒u v脿o kh峄慽 贸c c峄 ng瓢峄漣 d芒n, s峄� nam t铆nh 膽峄檆 h岷 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ch峄搉g, ng瓢峄漣 cha, coi m矛nh l脿 ng瓢峄漣 ch峄� c贸 to脿n quy峄乶 sinh s谩t v峄沬 m峄峣 th脿nh vi锚n gi峄憂g c谩i.
膼脿n 么ng gi峄憂g nh瓢 n煤i, ph峄� n峄� gi峄憂g nh瓢 n瓢峄沜. V矛 n瓢峄沜 l脿 kh峄焛 ngu峄搉 c峄 s峄� s峄憂g v脿 n贸 bi岷縩 膽峄昳 h矛nh d岷g theo m么i tr瓢峄漬g xung quanh. Gi峄憂g nh瓢 ph峄� n峄�, n瓢峄沜 c农ng hi岷縩 m矛nh ho脿n to脿n khi n贸 nu么i d瓢峄g s峄� s峄憂g. T么i tin r岷眓g, b岷 ch岷 vi峄嘽 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y s岷� kh贸 c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 xu岷 b岷 nhi峄乽 l岷 n峄痑 (v矛 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 b么i x岷 膼岷g C峄檔g S岷 Trung Qu峄慶 qu谩 nhi峄乽), 膽芒y v岷玭 l脿 m峄檛 t谩c ph岷﹎ tuy峄噒 v峄漣, m峄檛 ch矛a kho谩 tr峄漣 cho 膽峄� c谩nh 膽脿n 么ng c贸 th峄� ch岷 膽岷縩 t芒m t瓢, c岷 x煤c c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄�, ng瓢峄漣 m岷�, con g谩i c峄 m矛nh. Th岷 hi峄僽 l脿 s峄ヽ m岷h, kh么ng bao gi峄� l脿 m峄乵 y岷縰. V脿 t么i khuy岷縩 c谩o, b岷 ph岷 can 膽岷 v脿 ki锚n tr矛 khi 膽峄峜 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y, v矛 b岷 s岷� run r岷﹜, tr谩i tim b岷 s岷� b峄� b贸p ngh岷箃 膽岷縩 t岷璶 nh峄痭g trang cu峄慽 c霉ng.
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B峄� qua c谩i nh矛n h岷眓 g芒n m谩u l锚n m峄檛 th峄漣 k峄� kh峄g ho岷g c峄 膽岷 n瓢峄沜 Trung Hoa, khi m脿 v峄� th岷� ch铆nh tr峄�, n峄乶 t岷g t瓢 t瓢峄焠g v脿 gia 膽矛nh quy岷縯 膽峄媙h c谩ch cu峄檆 膽峄漣 膽峄慽 x峄� v峄沬 b岷, nguy锚n nh芒n c峄 nh峄痭g c岷h 膽峄漣 n脿y kh么ng ch峄� 膽啤n gi岷 nh瓢 th岷�. N贸 c貌n 膽岷縩 t峄� t瓢 t瓢峄焠g tr峄峮g nam khinh n峄� (Nho gi谩o) in s芒u v脿o kh峄慽 贸c c峄 ng瓢峄漣 d芒n, s峄� nam t铆nh 膽峄檆 h岷 c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 ch峄搉g, ng瓢峄漣 cha, coi m矛nh l脿 ng瓢峄漣 ch峄� c贸 to脿n quy峄乶 sinh s谩t v峄沬 m峄峣 th脿nh vi锚n gi峄憂g c谩i.
膼脿n 么ng gi峄憂g nh瓢 n煤i, ph峄� n峄� gi峄憂g nh瓢 n瓢峄沜. V矛 n瓢峄沜 l脿 kh峄焛 ngu峄搉 c峄 s峄� s峄憂g v脿 n贸 bi岷縩 膽峄昳 h矛nh d岷g theo m么i tr瓢峄漬g xung quanh. Gi峄憂g nh瓢 ph峄� n峄�, n瓢峄沜 c农ng hi岷縩 m矛nh ho脿n to脿n khi n贸 nu么i d瓢峄g s峄� s峄憂g. T么i tin r岷眓g, b岷 ch岷 vi峄嘽 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y s岷� kh贸 c贸 th峄� 膽瓢峄 xu岷 b岷 nhi峄乽 l岷 n峄痑 (v矛 nh峄痭g c芒u chuy峄噉 b么i x岷 膼岷g C峄檔g S岷 Trung Qu峄慶 qu谩 nhi峄乽), 膽芒y v岷玭 l脿 m峄檛 t谩c ph岷﹎ tuy峄噒 v峄漣, m峄檛 ch矛a kho谩 tr峄漣 cho 膽峄� c谩nh 膽脿n 么ng c贸 th峄� ch岷 膽岷縩 t芒m t瓢, c岷 x煤c c峄 nh峄痭g ng瓢峄漣 v峄�, ng瓢峄漣 m岷�, con g谩i c峄 m矛nh. Th岷 hi峄僽 l脿 s峄ヽ m岷h, kh么ng bao gi峄� l脿 m峄乵 y岷縰. V脿 t么i khuy岷縩 c谩o, b岷 ph岷 can 膽岷 v脿 ki锚n tr矛 khi 膽峄峜 cu峄憂 s谩ch n脿y, v矛 b岷 s岷� run r岷﹜, tr谩i tim b岷 s岷� b峄� b贸p ngh岷箃 膽岷縩 t岷璶 nh峄痭g trang cu峄慽 c霉ng.
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