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Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Barely worn folds of spine foot, else near fine(+) in fine DJ.. Octavo in white DJ; 165 p; 21 cm. Chinese fiction -- Translations into English. Things just keep getting better and better. ... Well, don't they? If you are a woman and you live in China, to answer this question you will need not only to look around you but to look back, to see not just how things are now but how they once were. China has traveled a long and torturous road since the collapse of the final imperial dynasty and the establishment of a modern republic early in this century; but have the nature of women's lives and their opportunities for just and equal treatment improved? Renowned writer Gu Hua confronts this issue in Virgin Widows, a poignant and disquieting novel that unfolds in alternating chapters the stories of two women whose lives, despite being separated by nearly a century, reveal a disturbing similarity. First…
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Virgin Widows Hardcover - 1996
by Hua Gu; Howard Goldblatt (Translator)
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- Title Virgin Widows
- Author Hua Gu; Howard Goldblatt (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition, f
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
- Date 1996-06
- ISBN 9780824817701 / 0824817702
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-46066
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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