New Voices: Mountain Hearts, World Dreams

[A Full-Color Ethnographic Anthology of Miao Women in Southwest China]

This volume presents a rare and intimate oral history of the Miao women in the remote border ranges of Guangxi and Guizhou. Authored by acclaimed writer Shifang Yang and translated by Bob Song, New Voicesdocuments a unique linguistic and sociological phenomenon: how a group of marginalized women, once cut off from education, mastered Mandarin through a village night school and began writing poetry to reclaim their voices.

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