The Sorrowful Generation of the Mei Ming Girls
Prior to the 1949 Revolution, extreme precariousness compelled numerous Chinese families to trade their daughters as a desperate mechanism of survival. Even within more affluent contexts, the marriage contract functioned as a rigid, immutable arrangement between clans, wherein the agency of the woman was entirely non-existent. Whilst the revolutionary process catalysed an incipient female mobilisation against such structural subordination,…
José Ramón González