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2000s: Modern stories of women in China
Message from an Unknown Mother
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Modern stories of women in China
What you need to know before your trail
Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption, others were forced to abandon them – on city streets, outside hospitals, orphanages or on station platforms – and others even had to watch their baby daughters being taken away at birth, and drowned.
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The author says in her author note that the book was written for adopted daughters. She wrote about her own personal experiences to and her work as a reporter in China.
The author was sent away to live with her grandmother when she was only 30 days old.Her mother, like so many others, believed that you had to put your country and the party first and that your family and children had to come second.
Her earliest memory is seeing her mother walking towards her on Nanjing platform. She was only five at the time but remembers her moher’s embrace
Two weeks later, after living back with her parents, they were sent away to a poltical jail wben the Cultural Revolution began. She and her younger brother who was only 2 and a half, became orphans
This is her story too
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Destination: China Author/Guide: Xinran Departure Time: 2000s
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