商品簡介
An internationally best-selling author offers searing stories of Chinese mothers who have abandoned or given their daughters up for adoption. By the author of China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation. 35,000 first printing.
作者簡介
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.
