Description
What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of on a regular basis life help shed light upon those turbulent times?
Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up all the way through the Mao era. All hail from urban backgrounds and all have obtained their Ph.D.s in america; thus, their memories are informed by intellectual training and insights that only distance can allow. Each and every of the chapters—arranged by the age of the writer—is crafted by a author who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been conceivable for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed and reflect on their lives in america.
The issues explored here are as varied as these women’s lives: The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl’s struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters.
Some of Us offers insight into a place and time when life used to be a lot more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, sufferers, and victimizers. Together, these multi-faceted memoirs offer the reader new perspectives as they daringly explore difficult—and fascinating—issues.