Min Li's Perfect Place: Requiem for a Chinese Peasent

If Min Li did everything right, she would never have survived in the fast-changing world of modern China. Growing up in the countryside, Min Li knew that doing well in school could change her family's history and end the abject poverty in which they lived. But Chinese custom dictated that she obey her father who sold her into a marriage with a boy who had twice attempted to rape her.If she obeyed her father, not only would she remain in poverty, but she would have suffered abuse the rest of...