The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
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Journal Entry 1 by Mariac1510 from -- Somewhere in Essex -- 🤷♂️, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, September 23, 2004
This is a book of horror stories: of man's inhumanity to women; of women's inhumanity to each other; of the hideous effects the political can have on the personal lives of hundreds.
Xinran, before moving to England, was a radio presenter with the Chinese state radio. At the end of the 1980s, just over five years after Deng Xiaoping had 'started the slow process of "opening up" China', she started an evening radio programme, 'Words on the Night Breeze', a music and talk programme which, she persuaded her superiors (and their superiors, and their superiors), should include a short 'women's mailbox slot'. Her mission was to understand Chinese women. What do they want? What do they believe? What did they go through during the years of Revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?
Xinran, before moving to England, was a radio presenter with the Chinese state radio. At the end of the 1980s, just over five years after Deng Xiaoping had 'started the slow process of "opening up" China', she started an evening radio programme, 'Words on the Night Breeze', a music and talk programme which, she persuaded her superiors (and their superiors, and their superiors), should include a short 'women's mailbox slot'. Her mission was to understand Chinese women. What do they want? What do they believe? What did they go through during the years of Revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?
