them and them

Women in People magazine

12 real female stories (9 in-depth character reports + 3 exclusive self-narration by the author)

Telling about the fate and soul of women in this era

From the countryside to the city, from being confused to being an old man

They suffer, they struggle, they suffer and remain innocent

Their story is an eternal story, but also a human story

From silence to sound, from stranger to encounter, from one person to another

These words radiate light and heat, let resonance happen, let understanding come true

This is certainly a woman's book. Female writers, while writing female stories, also outline the outline of their own lives. For the first time, "People" magazine pushed authors to the front and asked them to reveal their lives. We don't want them to hide in the name of objectivity anymore. We've seen how the flames of their lives illuminated their interviews and their writing. They use themselves as weapons to pry open the shell of the protagonist's life, to find the resonance at the bottom of the female spirit, and to complete a story.

——Zhang Han (Editor-in-Chief of People Magazine)

A woman's story is a chapter of a woman's life. The tension in the eloquent narration, the humming between plain and tacit understanding. A woman in a female pen, your sketch, my shadow. The calm and calm words are like a fine net to salvage the ordinary, painful and joyful moments.

——Dai Jinhua (scholar)

Xiaoqing, Song Guo, and Feiran are the best character reporters in China. Their character writing is like a wading boat, connecting the people in the story with thousands of strangers far away. We are not Liu Xiaomian or Song Xiaonv, but we recognize ourselves from them, we think of our mother and the lives of more women; we may have never been to Guanzhong Plain or Changfeng County, but we see and hear through their pens There, shed tears or surged with hope for the people and things there. In "They and Them", we are also fortunate to read the story of the boat itself: what polished their pens, what made them choose to start from the perspective of women, what made them grasp the never-before-seen story in this world. A story that someone cares about or listens to.

Once a gender perspective is acquired, it is difficult to lose it. If it brings hope, then the road leading to this hope is full of thorns; if it brings pain, then we would rather be stung by this pain to be more sober than return to the land of unenlightened tenderness. Our path to gender equality is both a result of our own lives and inspired by the experiences of other women, indistinguishable from each other, and our paths intertwine with mothers and daughters, slavery and slavery. free. And gender equality is not just a woman's wish and cause, because, "As long as a woman takes a step towards her own liberation, there must be a man who finds himself closer to the road to freedom."

——Stochastic Volatility (Chinese podcast)

"People" is not a women's publication, but its research on women's topics, the expression of women's discourse, and the writing of women's situation are all very accurate! As far as this book is concerned, from the top-level design experiment, gender issues into the mainstream of decision-making, to the gender dilemma and gender struggle of individual life, to the inner exploration and historical inheritance of women's ontology, there are rigorous, in-depth and real moving expressions , Even small and professional gender issues such as the proportion of public toilet pits and the height of bus handlebars have been thought about and dabbled in. As non-gender-professional authors, they are really excellent! At the same time, as non-professional writing, their focus will overflow gender topics at any time, bringing us richer thinking. For example, the story of Song Xiaonv is a female story rather than a gender story. The complex and interesting behind it is about human nature, not just about femininity.

——Zhang Yue (senior media person, host)

We can always see ourselves in the stories of others. I hope that every woman can live out her own life, not the one appointed by others.

——Guo Keyu (Actor, Singer)

In the book "Them and Them", we can see many women who live "hardly", some for life and some for ideals. The only thing in common is that they dare to face their hearts, be loyal to themselves, and live up to every moment in their lives. I, too, will try my best to be such a person.

——Sun Li (Actor)

"They and Them" is a story about a group of women, both the writer and the written are women. They are real and sensitive, and everyone has irreplaceable insight into the world. Their stories are worth scrutinizing.

——Li Yinuo (Founder of "One Earth Education")