Roses Blooming amid Thorns

摘要

Title: A Fragrant Path of Thorns: Chinese Women in the Past Century Compiled by Mei Yubing 280 pages RMB 98 Published by New Star Press in Beijing in September 2012 THE seeming contradiction in the title of Mei Yubing’s compilation of biographies, A Fragrant Path of Thorns, is in fact a tting description of the lives of its heroines. This book combines short biographies of six Chinese women in the 20th century from the late Qing Dynasty