Top Highlights

• Before marriage a woman was under the rule of her father, after marriage under her husband and his parents and, if her husband died, subordinate to her eldest son. She could not remarry.
• The intent of the series is to keep alive a number of largely forgotten books, written by or about men and women who survived extreme hardship and deprivation during immensely trying historical times.
• the Chinese Revolution of 1949 is one of the crucial turning points of the twentieth century, ranking with the October Revolution and the defeat of fascism in World War II in world-historical importance.
• When it became clear that the Chinese Revolution could not be contained in the accepted Marxist formulas, they did not say, “So much the worse for the Chinese facts.” In the midst of their struggle for survival they proceeded to evolve a more flexible and sophisticated theory which enriched Marxism by reflecting and absorbing the stubborn realities...
• the Chinese Communists were better Marxists than their foreign mentors, whether Russian, German, French, or Anglo-Saxon.