Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of loss & love
Author(s): Xinran
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously, because they were too painful and close to home. In the footsteps of Xinrans Good Women of China, this is personal, immediate, full of both harrowing, tragic detail and uplifting, tender moments. Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women students, successful business women, midwives, and peasants, all with memories that have stained their lives.
Product Information
Born in Beijing in 1958, Xinran was a journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she wrote her bestselling book The Good Women of China. Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian, appeared frequently on radio and TV and published Sky Burial, What the Chinese Don't Eat, a novel (Miss Chopsticks), and a groundbreaking book of oral history, China Witness. Her charity, The Mothers' Bridge of Love, was founded to help disadvantaged Chinese children and to build a bridge of understanding between the West and China.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.3
- : February 2010
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 23.3 Centimeters
- : September 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : Xinran
- : Paperback
- : Airport / Ireland / Export ed
- : 951.05092
- : very good
- : 224