{"product_id":"message-from-an-unknown-chinese-mother-stories-of-loss-and-love-9781451610949","title":"Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since \u003ci\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e \"full of heart-rending tales....shocking, simply told...a very powerful polemic\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers--students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants--who, whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, have given up their daughters. Xinran beautifully portrays the \"extra-birth guerrillas\" who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; na ve young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the \"pebble mother\" on the banks of the Yangtze River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can't produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451610949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Xinran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36651358552220,"sku":"9781451610949","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_76144a45-af71-4c6c-9cdf-56c67e8926f6.jpg?v=1603877475","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/message-from-an-unknown-chinese-mother-stories-of-loss-and-love-9781451610949","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}