Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19, Xiuhua’s mother encouraged her to marry a man nearly twice her age, fearful no one else would accept a wife with Xiuhua’s condition — cerebral palsy. But as her 20th anniversary approaches, Xiuhua’s poetry goes viral, and she becomes the voice of a rising feminist movement throughout China.
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Mary Lou Breslin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2009
Mary Lou Breslin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2009