Xinran

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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, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation's grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel's Working and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China—a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.

Un serie de historias verdaderas sobre madres chinas que abandonaron a sus hijas por varios motivos (pobreza, la ley de un niño por cada familia, la preferencia en China para los niños sobre las niñas). La intencion de Xinran al escribir este libro era ayudar a las hijas chinas adoptadas en el oeste a entender por que sus madres biologicas las abandonaron. Quiere explicar que no era por falta de amor sino por las condiciones tan duras en la sociedad China en aquellos tiempos.Xinran es la escritora china mas reconocida por la critica de todo el mundo occidental. Es famosa sobretodo por sus libros de narrativa testimonial que tienen como objetivo las duras condiciones de vida que sufren las mujeres en China.

Por primera vez, los hombres y mujeres que vivieron la mayor revolución del siglo XX se atreven a hablar. En su nuevo libro, Generación Mao recoge veinte años de investigación y trabajo de campo del este al oeste del pais y del Rio Amarillo al Yangtze, con numerosos testimonios de hombres y mujeres que tienen entre 70 y 90 años. Para este trabajo la autora ha involucrado a estudiantes tanto britanicos como chinos. Los jovenes de China no conocen nada de la Revolucion Cultural ni de la vida en el interior del pais y cuando viajaron conmigo y oyeron a esa gente se quedaban en estado de shock, sin poder creer lo que oian, explica Xinran.

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Sisters Three, Five and Six dont have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasnt produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Together they find jobs, make new friends, and learn more than a few lessons about life...

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 country. Here, through the intimacy of her writing, those women's voices continue to confide in the reader.

1958, China. Wen y Kajun son dos médicos recién casados que deben separarse cuando Kejun parte hacia el Tíbet como médico del Ejército Popular de Liberación de Mao. Cuando Wen recibe la noticia de su desaparicion, viaja al Tibet en busca de su marido. Alli se sumerge en un mundo desconocido, pero el recuerdo de Kejun la impulsa a seguir adelante incluso cuando se pierde por las montañas y es acogida por unos nomadas. Durante años de vida errante, Wen descubrira las costumbres y rituales de una cultura dedicada a la religion, una vida distinta, en la que las mujeres pueden tener varios maridos, la costura es un oficio de hombres y los forasteros no pueden tocar objetos religiosos. Cuando Wen por fin encuentra lo que busca, habra pasado treinta años de aprendizaje, de descubrimiento y de transformacion personal en el Tibet.

Este é um livro surpreendente, quase tão surpreendente quanto a China que emerge de suas páginas. Sua trajetória começa em 1989, quando a autora se torna apresentadora de rádio na China da "abertura"

Entre 1989 e 1997, a jornalista Xinran entrevistou mulheres de diferentes idades e condições sociais, a fim de compreender a condição feminina na China moderna. Seu programa de rádio, Palavras na bri

Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools. Each of her columns inspired letters and questions and more opportunities for Xinran to shed light on the culture of her native land. What the Chinese Dont Eat collects these pieces together for the first time to give one unique Chinese womans perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British and Chinese people today.

Sisters Three, Five and Six dont have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasnt produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. But when they leave their home in the countryside to seek their fortune in the big city, their eyes are suddenly and shockingly opened. Together they find jobs, make new friends, and learn more than a few lessons about life...

China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken Chinas people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization - and have survived into the 21st century. We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, from across this vast country - a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary double-gun woman, Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, will help our future understand our past.

Fast-paced and punchy ... accomplishedIndependent With journalistic acumen and a novelists flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under Chinas single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious one and onlies are burdened with expectation, yet have often been brought up without any sense of responsibility. Within their families, they are revered as little emperors and suns, although such cosseting can come at a high price: isolation, confusion and an inability to deal with lifes challenges.From the businessmans son unable to pack his own suitcase, to the PhD student who pulled herself out of extreme rural poverty, Xinran shows how these generations embody the hopes and fears of a great nation at a time of unprecedented change. It is a time of fragmentation, heart-breaking and inspiring in equal measure, in which capitalism vies with communism, the city with the countryside and Western opportunity with Eastern tradition. Through the fascinating stories of these only children, we catch a startling glimpse of the emerging face of China.

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. Personal, immediate, full of sorrow but also full of hope, this books sends a heart-rending message to Chinese girls who have been adopted to show them how things really were for their mothers, and to tell them they were loved and will never be forgotten.

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 fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who had been serving as a doctor in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast and silent plateaus and the magisterial mountain ranges, living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons and struggling to survive.In this haunting book, Xinran recreates Shu Wens remarkable journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and, ultimately, uplifting Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and politics.

China, 1989 a 1997.Las voces silenciadas, de Xinran, es una obra imprescindible que da voz a las mujeres silenciadas durante décadas en una sociedad profundamente restrictiva e hipócrita. Aprovechando la apertura de China en los años 80 bajo Deng Xiaoping, Xinran lanzo un programa de radio dirigido a mujeres, donde miles de ellas compartieron sus desgarradoras historias de crueldad, resiliencia y valentia.En esta recopilacion profundamente conmovedora, Xinran aborda con valentia temas tabu como los matrimonios forzados, las violaciones, la homosexualidad y el lugar de la mujer en la China moderna. Estas historias personales tejen una cronica social perturbadora y reveladora de la Revolucion Cultural y sus secuelas. Una lectura desgarradora, inspiradora y absolutamente inolvidable.Una denuncia mordaz de la violencia en China y la hipocresia de la Revolucion Cultural. Un homenaje a las vidas destruidas de innumerables mujeres olvidadas entre la multitud. Unas memorias catarticas de una mujer que desafio la censura para dar voz a quienes no la tenian.

Xinran, autora del aclamado libro Nacer mujer en China, ha obtenido reconocimiento internacional gracias a su extraordinario talento para trasladar al lector al corazón mismo de la sociedad china. En Tres, Cinco y Seis, nos narra la sencilla pero a la vez divertida y conmovedora historia de tres hermanas que, como tantos otros emigrantes, abandonan la vida en el campo para probar fortuna en la gran ciudad.Las hermanas Tres, Cinco y Seis no cuentan con muchos estudios, pero si hay algo que saben a ciencia cierta: su madre es un fracaso como mujer porque no ha dado a luz ningun varon y, por tanto, el unico nombre que ellas merecen es un numero. Cuando dejan atras su hogar para buscar trabajo en Nankin, la intimidante ciudad se descubre ante ellas y les abre los ojos: atascos de trafico, edificios altisimos, actitudes desinhibidas, maravillas gastronomicas..., y el curioso mundo del trabajo. Tres descubre que su extraordinario talento creativo contribuye al exito de un pequeño local de comida rapida, mientras que Cinco y Seis adquieren nuevos conocimientos: la primera, en un balneario, y la segunda, en una teteria para amantes de los libros. Poco a poco, cada una iraencontrando su lugar en el mundo pero¿que sucedera cuando tengan que volver a casa?A traves de la mirada de tres hermanas, Xinran describede forma cercana, certera y real la China contemporanea, y nos acerca a una sociedad cambiante que esta evolucionando muy deprisa.

For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of political turmoil had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories.This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the womens voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Their stories changed Xinrans understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.