SPILLED WATER explores the lives of four Chinese women as their country’s rapid economic transformation shifts their roles, rights and status as mothers, wives and daughters. From the urban hustle of Beijing to the desolate beauty of rural provinces, May May charts the progress of hard-won gender equality through struggles unique to China’s politics and patriarchal past. Through their intimate stories, she learns how and why gender equality in China is so hard-earned.
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