As a journalist and broadcaster in China, Xinran encouraged women to come forward and tell their tales. The result was astonishing and The Good Women of China, the seminal book, developed from the material. This extraordinary story expands one of those tales. It tells of a wife’s search for her husband in Tibet, a love story, a history, a clash of cultures. Quite devastating.
In 1994, Xinran met a woman whose story was so extraordinary, it came to obsess her. Of all the Chinese women that Xinran had interviewed for her radio programme (famous in China for its discussion of women's lives), Shu Wen had endured things far beyond the imagination of most people. For over thirty years, she had wandered the empty, silent mountains of north Tibet in search of her husband, a Chinese soldier who was missing in action.
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In 1994, Xinran met a woman whose story was so extraordinary, it came to obsess her. Of all the Chinese women that Xinran had interviewed for her radio programme (famous in China for its discussion of women's lives), Shu Wen had endured things far beyond the imagination of most people.
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Sky Burial was written by Xinran and published by Vintage
Sky Burial has 164 pages
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