« All of Farrell’s subjects so far “are peasant farmers working off the land,” she writes, far from the “city life depicted so often in academia on foot binding,” full of “beautifully embroidered shoes and luxury lifestyles.” “These incredible women [have] lived through famine, the cultural revolution (where people were penalised for the four olds: old habits, manners, custom, and culture) and family deconstruction/migration of the twentieth century. »
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