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During the Edo period in Japan, women would shave their eyebrows, apply white powder, adorn their lips with red pigment, and dye their teeth black using a mixture of iron rust and black pulp water. This practice was essential for noblewomen, as without it, no matter how beautiful they were, they would struggle to find a suitable marriage match. The imagery of a mouth resembling a tomb and a black hole is evoked, but fortunately, with the advent of the epidemic, everyone is masked and thus not easily recognizable. However, in Hong Kong, a 400-year-old female demon, adrift in a foreign land, inadvertently exposes her true form during a fire accident...
- AuthorLi Bihua
- PublisherTian Di Book Company Limited
- Publication Date2021
As a woman, you have to suffer a lot. Esther Lee uses Cantonese-style prose and simple language to describe the unfortunate experiences she learnt from her female friends over the years. Shakespeare has a famous saying: "Weakness, thy name is woman!" It seems to draw the boundary of ability for women. But as a woman, can you only be a weak person? "Weakness" and "strength" don’t need to be binary opposites, but a growth process. Each story in this book seems to be an account of incidents, but it is also a process of gaining growth. Even if you are in trouble, as long as you adjust your mindset and try to make changes, you can start a new life and become an independent and strong person. From a weak and helpless person suffering from oppression, to an independent and self-reliant strong person, it takes the courage to confront cruel reality. Although they went through unfortunate experiences, some of them will passively accept reality, but some will bravely set new boundaries for themselves. The word "woman" has always been a cover-all label for all women. Whether you are strong or weak depends not on your gender, but on your mindset. This book pays tribute to countless ordinary women, because they live to prove the meaning of life.
- AuthorEsther Lee
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2022
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