Xinghua - The Woman Who Held Up The Sky

By Youfeng Shen

Born into a scholar's family in 1901 at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Dong Xinghua lived through the fall of a dynasty, the birth of a Republic and the establishment of Communist China. After thousands of years of ruling dynasties, China was rapidly changing. Xinghua's generation witnessed the two World Wars, the Japanese invasion and occupation of China, the Civil War between the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party, the Great Leap Forward, a three-year famine that killed millions of people, and Mao Zedong's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Xinghua's journal tells the story of her transformation from an obedient young girl into a strong woman, standing up for herself, her family, and the people around her. With unusual resilience, compassion, and courage, she stood like an iron statue, tall and unafraid on her tiny five-inch feet. In spite of some of Mao Zedong's failed political experiments, Xinghua left a great legacy of love and wisdom for her family and future generations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CLH7JV11
• ISBN13: 9798864903315
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 296 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"