"This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years on. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including interviews, this is the moving story of one of the great events of 20th century history."
"The Long March of 1934-35 is the central event in modern Chinese history. This is the story of the women of the Long March, seen through the eyes of three key figures. There were 30 women walking with the elite leaders and a women's army of 3000 soldiers. The text follows the experiences of two of the elite women: Zhu De's wife, Kang Kequing, who shouldered arms and fought beside him, and Mao Zedong's wife, He Zizhen, who bore children ..."
"Alluding to poets well known in Chinese literary circles, the artist Shen Zengzhi (
1850–1922) commented: “Li Yi'an [Li Qingzhao], natural and free, with her spirit
of a man, is really a Su [Shi] and a Xin [Qiji] in the women's chambers rather than
a ... a Liu [Yong].” The spontaneous overflow of emotions and a strong personal
rhetoric endowed her poetry with a special power and distinctive voice, which
was further complemented by a ..."
"This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years on. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including interviews, this is the moving story of one of the great events of 20th century history."
"This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years on. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including interviews, this is the moving story of one of the great events of 20th century history."
"This new volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insig ..."