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Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.

Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants—who have given up their 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 even had to watch as their baby daughters were taken away at birth and drowned. Xinran beautifully portrays the “extra-birth guerrillas” who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; naïve young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the “pebble mother” on the banks of the Yangzte River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can’t produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state.

For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.

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“[Xinran’s] program – and now this book – gave a voice to some of the poorest women in Chinese society, whose stories would otherwise never be heard... MESSAGE FROM AN UNKNOWN CHINESE MOTHER is full of heart-rending tales. They are shocking, simply told and augmented with passages that provide information about matters like the one-child policy, the history of orphanages and Chinese adoption laws...A very powerful polemic.” --New York Times Book Review

"I'm a longtime admirer of Xinran's writing. She has a rare gift as both a compassionate listener and a mesmerizing storyteller. In reading her books, I always feel as if I am in a room, listening with Xinran, as strangers unveil the haunting details of their lives that grab my imagination and my heart. " -Amy Tan

“Xinran collects the heartbreaking stories of Chinese women forced to give up their baby girls....[she] is compassionate and remarkably adept at getting her interviewees to open up about their most painful memories.” –Publishers Weekly, Pick of the Week

"A heartbreaking examination of the reasons why Chinese women give up their girls for adoption." -Kirkus

“The core of Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is the individual stories of women who have lost their daughters. One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by them.” –The Economist

“This is an extraordinary book told with generosity and warmth by a brilliant storyteller.” —Financial Times
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Xinran (born in Beijing, 1958) was a radio journalist in China before moving to London, where she wrote her bestselling book. The Good Women of China (2002), a collection of stories drawn from hundreds of interviews conducted during her time as a presenter on her groundbreaking program Words on the Night Breeze (1989-97). It has now been translated into over thirty languages. She is also the author of Sky Burial (2004); What the Chinese Don't Eat (2006), based on her columns in The Guardian; Miss Chopsticks (2007); and China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation (2008), a collection of stories from the grandparents of modern China. She often advises Western media (including BBC and Sky News) about Western relations with China and makes frequent television and radio appearances. She is a member of the advisory board of the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature. In 2004, Xinran set up the charity The Mothers' Bridge of Love (MBL), which reaches out to Chinese children in all corners of the world by creating a bridge of understanding between China and the West and between adoptive and birth cultures. Learn more at www.mothersbridge.org.

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  • Data di pubblicazione2011
  • ISBN 10 1451610890
  • ISBN 13 9781451610895
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero di pagine239
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