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Sky Burial
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and …
Tapte døtre
"Tapte døtre" handler om kinesiske kvinner som har vært tvunget til å gi fra seg sine nyfødte døtre. Døtre har liten verdi, de må ofres for sønner som kan bidra til familiens …
Buy Me the Sky
Tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. From the businessman's son unable to pack …
What the Chinese Don't Eat
What the Chinese Don't Eat collects these pieces together for the first time to give one unique Chinese woman's perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of …
Family, Children, and Tourism in China
This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and …
GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA
An account of how Xinran, a Chinese radio presenter, negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on her and her fellow journalists in order to reach out to women across the …
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
Now in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans "full of heart-rending tales....shocking, simply told...a very powerful polemic" …
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, …
Proceedings of the American Society for Composites 2015
The Promise
At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this …
China Witness
Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey …
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Drawing on personal interviews with, anecdotes by, and experiences of modern Chinese women at all levels of society, this fascinating study looks at what it means to be a woman in …