The Good Women of China
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2002, 230 pages

Xinran was a radio broadcaster for a state radio station in Nanjing. In 1989, she hosted a controversial talk-show called "Words on the Night Breeze". The topics discussed on air were very personal issues raised by her listeners through the letters they sent her. These letters, mostly written by women, were so disturbing that Xinran suddenly discovered how