Woman from Shanghai by Xianhui Yang6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Other less graphic alternatives include Xinran’s The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices and China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation. In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of Chinas most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction. Verdict: While absolutely necessary as historical testimony, Woman from Shanghai is unrelentingly difficult reading and not for the faint-hearted (or stomached) recommended for readers seriously interested in 20th-century Asian history. When the camp was shut down in 1961 because of mass deaths from starvation, only 500 had survived, through stealing, foraging, and even such horrifying means as culling excretions and harvesting corpses. Between 19, some 3000 dissidents were sent to Jiabiangou. ![]() ![]() Since the 1980s, Chinese writers determined to bear witness to the atrocities of Mao’s Communist regime have bypassed censorship by writing “documentary literature,” blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction.ĭrawing on 100-plus interviews, Xianhui Yang’s 13 thinly disguised stories chronicle the brutality of the Jiabiangou labor camp in China’s Gobi Desert region. ![]()
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