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Presented by Dr. Danke Li, Professor of East Asian Studies at Fairfield University, CT

This program will feature a screening and discussion of the documentary film Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China, based on Li’s recently published book by the same title, an oral history that records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China’s War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. The women featured in the book came from different social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war.

For more information about the Festival: http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/

Major funding for the 2012 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers is provided by the local cultural councils of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, including the towns of Alford-Egremont, Dalton, Great Barrington, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlborough, Pittsfield, Richmond, Stockbridge, Washington and West Stockbridge.