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.[...]

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[...]

Takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. This book gives a 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.[...]

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. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasa[...]

With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'on[...]

Et kinesisk ordtak lyder: «I alle familier er det en bok som helst ikke skal leses høyt.» Gjennom åtte banebrytende år fikk den kinesiske journalisten Xinran et nærgående innblikk i sine medsøstres skjulte historier. Som en av de første kvinner i Kina ledet hun sitt eget radioprogram. På [...]

Engasjerende og hjerteskjærende om mødre som ikke får beholde sine døtre.

Tapte døtre handler om kinesiske kvinner som føder døtre de ikke kan beholde, i et land med en streng ettbarnspolitikk. Jentebarna er lite verdt og må ofres for sønner som kan bidra til familiens økonomi.[...]

Tuhannet ja taas tuhannet kiinalaisnaiset ovat joutuneet luopumaan tyttäristään. He ovat jättäneet lapsen asemalaiturille, antaneet tämän adoptoitavaksi tai hylänneet orpokotiin tai sairaalan portaille. Joidenkin naisten kohtalo on ollut alistua ikivanhoihin tapoihin: kun vastasyntynyt ei ol[...]