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Women o f the Long March
In Print
By Lily Xiao Hong Lee & Sue Wiles
Allen & Unwin; 1999
Upington
By A ndrea
Durbach
A llen
&
Unwin; 1999
In May 1991,
journalists, news
crews, and human
a cawntry I* gripp ed wttfc ctvM u a m t
rights activists
from around the
A M ac k p aN c a a u n I* M t aU gM . W aaaty-
world gathered in
front of Pretoria’s
Mva p aap la ara caavktaal a t M s m urder
notorious Central
Pri son to watch the
release of 14 black
by a legal tria l aud aaa
South A fricans
from Death Row.
M m law yer» hl brutally I
Upington is their
story. It is also the
n i l 1« Mie « ta r y a» U p in g to n
story o f th eir
fellow accused
and the young
white woman who
becam e
th eir
A M O R IA
O U R B A C M
lawyer. It tells of a
c o u n t r y
undergoing vast
change and the painful process
of reconciliation with a savage
past. It unravels a trial of personal
and political complexity that
ends in the assassination of one
of the defense lawyers and the
eventual exile o f another to
Australia, a country coming to
terms with its own history.
Upington triggers the excavation
of a private life and reveals the
in extricable link betw een
personal
and
political
transformation, the challenge of
choice and the ultim ate
resolution that comes with ‘doing
time’.
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Just seventeen when they became lovers, Mao’s second wife He
Zizhen was condemned to a life o f loneliness after he tired of
her. A strong young peasant who only wanted to be a soldier,
Kang Keqing was called the Girl Commander. Married at
seventeen to a man she didn’t know, the illiterate peasant girl
Wang Quanyuan left him to fight alongside the Red rebels.
This is the story, never before told in English, of these women,
ithree of the thirty women who marched out of southern China
'with 85,000 soldiers of the Red Army on their famous Long
March. He Zizhen and several other women gave birth along the
way, only to be forced to leave their babies behind; Kang Keqing
endured the same hardships as the men, shouldered arms and
ifought alongside her male comrades; Wang Quanyuan fell foul
o f party politics and was eventually captured by enemy Moslem
cavalry.
Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including
¡interviews, this is the moving story of one of the great events of
20'h century history. From the time of their early revolutionary
(fervor when they harbored the same ideals, to the ordeal of the
ILong March, and the very different reality they faced after the
¡success of Communism, this book
¡tells of the journey of the women
who defied tradition to fight for
their own liberation and the
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