The diary of Ma Yan : the struggles and hopes of a Chinese schoolgirl / edited and introduced by Pierre Haski ; translated from the French by Lisa Appignanesi.
The diaries were originally translated from the Mandarin by He Yanping.
Summary:
Thrust into the hands of a foreign journalist by her illiterate mother, Ma Yan's diary describes her struggles to attend school in a drought-stricken corner of rural China--a place where education is the only hope for overcoming a life of crushing poverty.
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