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68/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Yuan Yang
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
July 2, 2024
A portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society.
What The Reviewers Say
An engrossing new book that meticulously reports on a country in the throes of change.
It is the tale of a unique time and an intimate picture of what it was like to live through, and learn to navigate, the storm..
Yang, whose narratives are culled from interviews and diaries, represents these women honestly, but as a result, the writing can be flat.
The riveting book that results from Yang’s persistence is a powerful snapshot of four young Chinese women attempting to assert control over the direction of their lives, escape the narrow confines of their patriarchal rural roots and make it in the big city.
