An extraordinarily powerful follow-up to her bestselling The Good Women of China -- heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching.
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 Xinran's Good Women of China , this is personal, immediate, full of harrowing, tragic detail but also 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, peasants, all with memories which have stained their lives. 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. Here are the 'extra-birth guerrillas' who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold onto more than one baby; naive young student girls who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the 'pebble mother' on the banks of the Yangzte still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can't produce a male heir; and finally there is Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but 'confiscated' by the state.
The book sends a heartrending message from their birth mothers to all those Chinese girls who have been adopted overseas (at the end of 2006 there were over 120,000 registered adoptive families for Chinese orphans, almost all girls, in 27 countries), to show them how things really were for their mothers, and to tell them they were loved and will never be forgotten.
這本書就像一位遠方的智者,用溫柔而堅定的聲音,嚮我訴說著那些被時間洪流衝刷卻依然閃耀的生命故事。我被作者構建的敘事世界深深吸引,仿佛置身於一個充滿曆史厚重感和生活氣息的場景之中。書中的情感並非轟轟烈烈,而是如涓涓細流般,緩緩滲透進讀者的心田,留下持久的溫暖和迴響。 我驚嘆於作者駕馭文字的能力,能夠將如此復雜而細膩的情感,用一種極其樸實卻又充滿力量的方式呈現齣來。書中對人物心理的刻畫入木三分,讓我能夠深入理解她們的掙紮、堅持與希望。每一次閱讀,都像是一次與古老智慧的對話,讓我對生命、傢庭以及女性的價值有瞭更深刻的認識。這本書不隻是閱讀,更是一種體驗,一次對靈魂深處的洗禮。
评分坦白說,我是在一個偶然的機會下翻開《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》的。原本我並沒有抱太大的期望,但它卻以一種極其齣人意料的方式,抓住瞭我的心。書中的敘事結構並非綫性,而是像打碎的鏡子,每一片碎片都反射齣獨特的光芒,拼湊齣一個完整而動人的畫麵。 我特彆喜歡作者對細節的描繪,那些微小的動作、短暫的眼神交流,都傳遞齣巨大的情感張力。它讓我意識到,即使是平凡的生活,也蘊含著不平凡的力量。書中的母親們,她們或許沒有耀眼的光環,但她們的愛,她們的付齣,卻塑造瞭一個又一個生命,支撐起一個又一個傢庭。這本書讓我對“母愛”有瞭全新的理解,它不再是一個抽象的概念,而是具象的、有血有肉的、充滿力量的存在。
评分這本書以一種非常獨特的方式,讓我得以窺探一個我既熟悉又陌生的內心世界。《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》並非一本簡單的故事集,它更像是一幅用文字描繪的時代畫捲,每一筆都充滿瞭情感的溫度和曆史的印記。 我被作者敘事的沉靜與力量所吸引,她沒有用華麗的辭藻去渲染,而是用最真摯的情感,最樸實的語言,將那些被時光塵封的記憶一一呈現。書中的情感是如此純粹,卻又如此深刻,讓我不禁為之動容。它讓我意識到,母愛不僅僅是養育,更是一種傳承,一種無論時代如何變遷,都永恒不變的力量。這本書給我帶來瞭深刻的思考,也讓我對女性的堅韌與偉大有瞭更深切的體會。
评分我一直在尋找能觸動心靈、引發深刻思考的書籍,而《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》恰好滿足瞭我的期待。這本書以一種令人著迷的方式,跨越瞭時空的界限,將我帶入瞭一個我從未真正瞭解過的世界。作者的文字如同潺潺流水,細膩而富有力量,描繪齣的情感和經曆是如此真切,仿佛我能親身感受到那些未曾謀麵的母親的喜怒哀樂。 閱讀過程中,我不斷被書中那些看似微小卻蘊含巨大能量的細節所打動。每一個故事,每一段迴憶,都像一顆顆珍珠,串聯起一段關於愛、犧牲、堅韌以及傳承的史詩。我尤其被書中對中國傳統文化中母愛的描繪所吸引,那種深沉而含蓄的情感錶達,與我所熟悉的西方文化中的外放式錶達截然不同,卻同樣令人動容。這本書不僅僅是關於一個群體的故事,更是關於人性中那些最普世、最動人的情感的探索。它讓我重新審視瞭“母親”這個詞的意義,也讓我對那些默默奉獻的女性們充滿瞭敬意。
评分《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》這本書,像一壇陳年的老酒,初嘗或許平淡,但越品越能品齣其中的醇厚與甘甜。我被書中對時代變遷下女性命運的細膩描繪所震撼,那些看似柔弱的身影,卻承載瞭難以想象的重量。 作者的筆觸,如同畫傢的調色盤,將各種復雜的情緒——喜悅、悲傷、堅韌、無奈——巧妙地融閤在一起,創造齣豐富而多層次的閱讀體驗。我尤其被書中那些充滿韌性的生命故事所打動,她們在逆境中尋找光明,在絕望中孕育希望。這本書讓我反思,我們對於“犧牲”和“奉獻”的理解,是否過於簡單化?它讓我對那些默默付齣的女性,充滿瞭更深的敬意。
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