 Cover design by Tina R. Malaney Lotus blossom photograph by Kosima Liu-Weber |
China for Womeneds ANNA GERSTLACHER & MARGIT MIOSGA
Travel & Culture
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- The book for every traveller to China wanting to understand the history of women in this vast and incredible land. China for Women brings to life the complex culture and history of China. Ding Ling and Agnes Smedley make palpable to years of the Communist Revolution, while women living in contemporary China describe the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and Tian'anmen Square.
Sifting through the chapters of China for Women is much like devouring a luscious white peach . . . and they fill the soul in a way that has never been filled by other books about women and China.
From the Palaeolithic to the present, Chinese women have held up half the sky.
Today they work as architects, soldiers, physicians and fruit growers, and some have travelled the Yangzi rapids in a rubber raft. China for Women is the perfect guide for tourist or armchair travellers. It neatly bridges past and present and brings to life the complex culture and history of China.
From the silk workers to reminiscences of the Cultural Revolution, the contributors write of work and of travel on trains and boats to Tibet and Guilin, along the Silk Road and though the streets of Beijing. The book concludes with Do’s and Don’ts for travellers and recommended reading.
