Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

Stories of Loss and Love

Xinran, Nicky Harman

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English

Vintage
01 April 2011

Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Family & relationships; Intergenerational relationships

An extraordinarily powerful collection of heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching...

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own- Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost 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 were forced to abandon them - on city streets, outside hospitals, orphanages or on station platforms - and others even had to watch their baby daughters being taken away at birth, and drowned.

Personal, immediate, full of sorrow but also full of hope, this books sends a heart-rending 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.

By: Xinran
Translated by: Nicky Harman
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9780099535751
ISBN 10: 0099535750
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Beijing in 1958, Xinran was a journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she wrote her bestselling book The Good Women of China. Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian, appeared frequently on radio and TV and published Sky Burial, What the Chinese Don't Eat, a novel (Miss Chopsticks), and a groundbreaking work of oral history, China Witness. Her charity, The Mothers' Bridge of Love, was founded to help disadvantaged Chinese children and to build a bridge of understanding between the West and China.

Reviews for Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Harrowing and heartbreaking yet important tales * SHE Magazine * No bleaker picture exists of the fate of Chinese female infants...than Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother * Spectator * One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved * Economist * Xinran rages against the system and gives voice to adoptive mothers overseas who have rescued young Chinese girls and desolate birth mothers who grieve and feel guilt for the loss of their daughters -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * This is an extraordinary book told with generosity and warmth by a brilliant storyteller -- Hilary Spurling * Financial Times *