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Xinran Xue was born in Beijing, China, in 1958. She experienced a difficult childhood during the Cultural Revolution. Xinran is divorced from her first husband with whom she had a son in 1988. In 1989, despite the restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists, she started a nightly radio program for women named Words on the Night Breeze for Chinese woman to ring in to share their stories of abuse and courage.
Xinran is well known in China as an iconic role model for Chinese women. In 1997, she moved to London, where she still lives today, and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. In 2002, she married Toby Eady, an English literary agent.
Xinran’s first book, The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, became an international bestseller. In 2004, she published the extraordinary story of Shu Wen, Sky Burial. The author was inspired to write about the Tibetan ritual of sky burial by a conversation she heard as a little girl in Beijing in the early 1960s.
She found the notion of sky burial both frightening and fascinating. Xinran assisted with the translation of Sky Burial in order to retain the essence of the text, which has now been translated into twenty languages. Sky Burial was translated to English from the original Chinese text by Julia Lovell and Esther Tyldesley.
The summary notes for Sky Burial cover the following key aspects from the text in detail:
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- Historical Issues
- Style
- Background Notes
- Summary
- Character Profiles
- Themes and Issues
- Sample Examination Questions
- Final Examination Tips
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