Description
In pre-Communist China, when women were not allowed to attend school, they invented their own secret writing system and sewed the characters into household linens so the men would not know they were writing. This is the story of how the language worked, how it was discovered, and what it revealed about life in rural China that male historians never were able to observe.
Norma Libman has been teaching courses in literature and history for Oasis for more than 20 years. She has degrees in education and literature and is a lecturer and a journalist with more than 500 published articles in newspapers nationwide. She is the author of two award-winning books, Lonely River Village: A Novel of Secret Stories, and a memoir, The Story of the Story.