阿尔贝托·莫拉维亚(Alberto Moravia，1907—1990)　举世瞩目的意大利二十世纪划时代小说家。他在毕生创作的近十八部长篇小说和十二部短篇小说集中，剖析了人的绝望感和忧虑，探讨了人的社会存在，揭示世界和人生的荒诞，否定理性至上的乐观主义精神，凸现了道德和行为、目的和手段、生存自由和生存条件之间的矛盾冲突，以及人的理想和现实的迥然不同。他认为：“作家的任务就是要揭示现代人怎么变成了被人利用的工具，而不是目的了。”他的小说故事性强，有多部被拍成电影。

看完了聂华苓的桑青与桃红。原本讲的就是一个精神分裂的故事，所以看得时候就尤其地痛苦，似乎都能听见自己脑袋分裂的声音。 现在看书还是会像小时候那样来个二分法，好人和坏人，男人和女人，喜欢的和不喜欢的（不一定就是喜欢好人不喜欢坏人。。。），或者说，悲剧喜剧，等等等等。这个讲一个精神分裂女子的故事的故事，却给了我难题，虽然一直处于分裂中，却分不出我更喜欢谁，谁是好人谁是坏人。 桑青代表了传统的中国女子道德观念。桃红，看看这个香艳的名字就知道，它和桑青是对立的。但是桃红就一定隐喻是“美国梦”吗？我觉得它更多地是一个女子要求自由的意愿吧。 就好像一根丝线，即使再坚韧，由桑青和桃红两个力量在两端猛力地拉扯，再坚强的神经也会绷断的。 我喜欢桑青。我赞美中国传统女性的含蓄，矜持。很清楚，我自己有时候也是按照这样的标准来要求自己的，或者...(展开全部)

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and emotions of these women, most of whom belonged to the elite families of Manchu society. Each selection is accompanied by biographical m...(展开全部)

Introduced by editor Emily Nemens and illustrated by Joana Avillez, the twelve interviews in Women at Work Volume Two add to the stunning lineup in Women at Work Volume One; from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017)—by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Val...(展开全部)

Introduced by editor Emily Nemens and illustrated by Joana Avillez, the twelve interviews in Women at Work Volume Two add to the stunning lineup in Women at Work Volume One; from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017)—by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Val...(展开全部)

Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of The London Cage, The Walls Have Ears, MI9 and more than twenty books on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World War II. She appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts and has been involved in numerous documentaries.

Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectac...(展开全部)

Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt.

Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectac...(展开全部)