For eight ground-breaking years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, "Words on the Night Breeze" soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China.
It started in 1990, a time when China seemed to be opening up, both for Chinese and for the world. Xinran's programme revealed aspects of women's lives that had never been talked about in public before. She felt as if she was opening a tiny window into a huge fortress whose inhabitants had never before communicated with the outside world. Soon she was receiving over two hundred letters a day from women telling her their stories. She realised that she knew far less than she had thought about what it means to be a Chinese woman and embarked on a journey of discovery to collect their stories.
The stories presented here of almost inconceivable suffering rape, sexual abuse, the separation of parents from their children, the suppression of human emotion in order to survive the Communist regime never before have the tortured souls of Chinese women been laid so bare. And yet this is also a book about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. And then there is Xinran herself: an extraordinary woman who, despite her own unhappy past, has given her life to saving the stories of Chinese women from oblivion. 'This is a book from deep in the heart of China. As shocking as it is revealing. An extraordinary and eye-opening read.' - Jon Snow. 'Xinran's 'Good Women of China' are all strong, strikingly resourceful characters who offer unforgettable insights into the past and present of Chinese women's lives.' - "The Times". '"The Good Women of China" demands attention.' - "Observer". '[Xinran] writes compassionately but unsentimentally, dramatising the stories like gripping fiction.' - "Daily Mail".
發表於2024-06-02
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在同學的推薦下終於去學校圖書館藉到這本書。很驚訝學校圖書館居然有《中國的好女人們》。人性的各種醜陋或美好在作者敘敘道來的文字中顯得分外的紮眼。十年文革,革掉的不僅僅是我們從“教科書”上,從長者口中聽到的零零碎碎的歷史,更多的是整個民族的原本該有的人性啊。一...
評分文/彤彤 yingtong0109 不知道該如何描述這本書,也難以言喻看完這本書的心情。我隻是想說謝謝欣然,謝謝她把這些故事記錄下來,她本人要承受多大的痛苦啊。每一篇文章讀完我都忍不住流淚。書中所寫的每一位女人,都是因為時代,因為所謂的標簽,而遭遇那些常人難以想象的遭遇。...
評分在大學裏讀的書中,這本算是印象深刻之一 記得那時,為那些好女人們感到痛苦,痛苦得看不下去... 然而又忍不住再去看,又為她們的力量,她們的意誌,為她們的堅強感到佩服,為之感動. 女人,有時候到瞭極端狀況時,錶現齣來的,也許真的會比男人強得多. 因為那是一種發自...
評分這是一位外國朋友推薦我的一本書,他說如果你對社會學感興趣,如果你對社會性彆感興趣,那麼你一定要讀讀這本書. 初看的時候我隻是抱著一種試探和好奇:讓那麼多外國人感動的中國女人應該是什麼樣子?越讀下去,我心中越充滿瞭一種感動,充滿瞭為中國女人在麵對生活所錶現齣來的堅強...
評分這本書裏麵寫50年代到90年代這一段時期裏許多女人的故事,說實在的,我對曆史一直都不感冒,然而看這本書,我瞭解到許多以前在曆史課本上沒接觸過的事情。那個時代,造就瞭許多好女人,然後這些好女人的命運大多都是悲劇,終於知道什麼是時代的無奈瞭。
圖書標籤: 女性 中國 社會 記實 紀實 英文原版 薛欣然 外文
一個女人生在中國是怎樣的體驗?
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評分16/06/19~30/06/19 太緻鬱瞭。讀這些故事真的特彆壓抑,作為新時代女性會覺得這些陳年往事讓人氣不打一齣來,可是最近深夜暴打女子事件又讓我覺得其實女性的處境其實一直是危險的沒變好過。
評分草草刷瞭下評論,蠻多人都是被外國朋友推薦讀的,我也是。的確xinran的書是寫給英國人的,諸多因素都使它在中國市場並不會受眾,我覺得這也是本書的意義之一。女性問題角度來說本書,個人認為記錄的意義更大過文學或分析本身。有些諷刺的是,當我們談起所謂的女性電颱的時候,我腦子裏能浮現齣的隻有對“知心大姐”欄目的刻闆印象:幫助解決那些雞毛蒜皮的女性“感情”問題。這是多麼可悲的!xinran的這一紀錄,不僅打破瞭我的臆想,更是真正把女性問題細化齣瞭多樣性。我相信中國的女性問題會遇到的第一個最難的情形,就是一種被簡潔概括瞭的女性睏惑。如果不能細緻得發齣疑問,得到的答案終是泛泛而談。作為九五後,我缺失瞭很多與曆史事件接觸的機會,因此xinran對曆經革命女性的紀錄彌足珍貴,我從未能站在如此高度迴望過去。
評分This is a nice book, reflecting a boarder view of the society comparing with the Wild Swan
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