Hilary Spurling/Xue Xinran

The two writers discuss the plights, courage and resilience of Chinese women over the last century in light of Spurling's new book 'Burying the Bones', which tells the tale of a girl born in Imperial China in 1892 to American Missionaries, and Xinran's novel about Chinese mothers who are forced to give up their children, 'Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother'.