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The Women keyword-cultural-history with no function other thanPart memoir and part literary nonfiction, The Women captures the harsh and unequal experience of being a woman in 1970s and 80s rural China. Written by the award winning author Yan Lianke, the book is both a tribute to the women who shaped his life and a sociological critique of Chinas treatment of women. In the countryside, the human being is a worker, but rural womens work is diminished, their hardship ignored. Through humor and tragedy, Lianke