An extraordinarily powerful follow-up to her bestselling The Good Women of China -- heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching.
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously -- because they were too painful and close to home. In the footsteps of Xinran's Good Women of China , this is personal, immediate, full of harrowing, tragic detail but also uplifting, tender moments.
Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women -- students, successful business women, midwives, peasants, all with memories which have stained their lives. 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. Here are the 'extra-birth guerrillas' who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold onto more than one baby; naive young student girls who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the 'pebble mother' on the banks of the Yangzte still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can't produce a male heir; and finally there is Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but 'confiscated' by the state.
The book sends a heartrending message from their birth mothers to all those Chinese girls who have been adopted overseas (at the end of 2006 there were over 120,000 registered adoptive families for Chinese orphans, almost all girls, in 27 countries), to show them how things really were for their mothers, and to tell them they were loved and will never be forgotten.
坦白说,我是在一个偶然的机会下翻开《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》的。原本我并没有抱太大的期望,但它却以一种极其出人意料的方式,抓住了我的心。书中的叙事结构并非线性,而是像打碎的镜子,每一片碎片都反射出独特的光芒,拼凑出一个完整而动人的画面。 我特别喜欢作者对细节的描绘,那些微小的动作、短暂的眼神交流,都传递出巨大的情感张力。它让我意识到,即使是平凡的生活,也蕴含着不平凡的力量。书中的母亲们,她们或许没有耀眼的光环,但她们的爱,她们的付出,却塑造了一个又一个生命,支撑起一个又一个家庭。这本书让我对“母爱”有了全新的理解,它不再是一个抽象的概念,而是具象的、有血有肉的、充满力量的存在。
评分我一直在寻找能触动心灵、引发深刻思考的书籍,而《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》恰好满足了我的期待。这本书以一种令人着迷的方式,跨越了时空的界限,将我带入了一个我从未真正了解过的世界。作者的文字如同潺潺流水,细腻而富有力量,描绘出的情感和经历是如此真切,仿佛我能亲身感受到那些未曾谋面的母亲的喜怒哀乐。 阅读过程中,我不断被书中那些看似微小却蕴含巨大能量的细节所打动。每一个故事,每一段回忆,都像一颗颗珍珠,串联起一段关于爱、牺牲、坚韧以及传承的史诗。我尤其被书中对中国传统文化中母爱的描绘所吸引,那种深沉而含蓄的情感表达,与我所熟悉的西方文化中的外放式表达截然不同,却同样令人动容。这本书不仅仅是关于一个群体的故事,更是关于人性中那些最普世、最动人的情感的探索。它让我重新审视了“母亲”这个词的意义,也让我对那些默默奉献的女性们充满了敬意。
评分《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》这本书,像一坛陈年的老酒,初尝或许平淡,但越品越能品出其中的醇厚与甘甜。我被书中对时代变迁下女性命运的细腻描绘所震撼,那些看似柔弱的身影,却承载了难以想象的重量。 作者的笔触,如同画家的调色盘,将各种复杂的情绪——喜悦、悲伤、坚韧、无奈——巧妙地融合在一起,创造出丰富而多层次的阅读体验。我尤其被书中那些充满韧性的生命故事所打动,她们在逆境中寻找光明,在绝望中孕育希望。这本书让我反思,我们对于“牺牲”和“奉献”的理解,是否过于简单化?它让我对那些默默付出的女性,充满了更深的敬意。
评分这本书就像一位远方的智者,用温柔而坚定的声音,向我诉说着那些被时间洪流冲刷却依然闪耀的生命故事。我被作者构建的叙事世界深深吸引,仿佛置身于一个充满历史厚重感和生活气息的场景之中。书中的情感并非轰轰烈烈,而是如涓涓细流般,缓缓渗透进读者的心田,留下持久的温暖和回响。 我惊叹于作者驾驭文字的能力,能够将如此复杂而细腻的情感,用一种极其朴实却又充满力量的方式呈现出来。书中对人物心理的刻画入木三分,让我能够深入理解她们的挣扎、坚持与希望。每一次阅读,都像是一次与古老智慧的对话,让我对生命、家庭以及女性的价值有了更深刻的认识。这本书不只是阅读,更是一种体验,一次对灵魂深处的洗礼。
评分这本书以一种非常独特的方式,让我得以窥探一个我既熟悉又陌生的内心世界。《Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother》并非一本简单的故事集,它更像是一幅用文字描绘的时代画卷,每一笔都充满了情感的温度和历史的印记。 我被作者叙事的沉静与力量所吸引,她没有用华丽的辞藻去渲染,而是用最真挚的情感,最朴实的语言,将那些被时光尘封的记忆一一呈现。书中的情感是如此纯粹,却又如此深刻,让我不禁为之动容。它让我意识到,母爱不仅仅是养育,更是一种传承,一种无论时代如何变迁,都永恒不变的力量。这本书给我带来了深刻的思考,也让我对女性的坚韧与伟大有了更深切的体会。
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