Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution.
New York. Feminist Press. 1976. Stock ID #168053 Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The "Village Voice" praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly...the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes." When referring to this item please quote stockid 168053.
xxxv + 203pp, notes, very good hardback copy. 22 x 15cm.
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