Culturas híbridas

This book collects a number of newspaper columns written by the (Chinese) author in the UK, published in the Guardian in the UK. There is definitely a pretty sad theme running through the majority of them - the oppression of women in Chinese society.The author goes so far as to say that, based on her experiences and the many many stories told to her by Chinese women, she doesn't think there are very many ‘good men of China'. (To provide context, she wrote a book titled [b:The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 178796 The Good Women of China Hidden Voices Xinran https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320438487s/178796.jpg 172734], and says she is often asked when she will write The Good Men of China.) She also makes the assertion in the introduction that men not only don't read her column, but that men don't read books by women authors. I can't agree with that, even as a generalisation - for myself I would be surprised if there were less than a third of books in my shelf by female authors. It is probably only skewed that far by the fact that some of the genres that interest me are dominated numerically by male authors - ie not by choice would I fill my shelves with male authors. Anyway, my reviewing this proves her wrong. What I do think about this book in particular, is that it is probably better received (or more sympathetically) by a female readership - perhaps this is what she meant by her comments.So to the review. I did find these columns quite repetitive, and among the other books by this author that I have read, it is probably the weakest. I think this is due to the presentation of the book - the short columns don't really work. Some address an issue to big too be covered in the small word count available, and are cut short or don't examine a broad enough context. Others are confusingly presented, calling in examples that aren't quite working in the context. Some are just repetitive along a similar theme. Some were good, concise and informative, but too few for me.I have other books by Xinran that I haven't yet read, and this won't put me off, but for me this one fell short at two stars.