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Book Title: The Woman Of Iron

Author: Mandy Loader

Illustrator: Kay Hodgkins

Publishing Company: Heinemann

Year of publishing: 1999

Word Level: Intermediate

Number of pages: 83

This book talked about a woman, Mei-Ying. The background of the story was in 1903. Mei-Ying was borned in a traditional Chinese family. When she was 5 years old, her mother wanted to bind her feet. However, she didn't want her feet bound. She looked at her mother's tiny feet and she thinked that her feet was horrible. She wanted to work instead of being carried all the time like her mother. However, her resistance was no use. In that

time, finding a good and rich husband was a good life for a woman. Fortunately, Mei-Ying had a chance to move to America because of her father's business. And she unbound her feet to set herself free. Then, unlike every Chines in America living the same lives as in China, she wanted to have live like Americans. She spoke good English and convinced of her father to let her help in his shoes store. She found that Chinese were not allowed saving their money in America bank. So she volunteered to solve this problem. And she finally found the first bank for Chinese. She became a very famous Chinese woman around the world. After reading this book, I understood more about traditional Chinese women's lives and cultural conflicts betwee west and east in that time. I feel sad about traditionalChinese women. They couldn't choose what they want. All the women were forced to have the same lives. Getting married and having kids are the only life goal. Though women get more entitlement now. I think the gender equality still needs to be improve.

I think that this book is really easy to read for me. So I could truly enjoy my reading. I finally choosed a proper book for myself.

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