Mixed account of life behind Chinese doors

**The Bathing Women**

**By Tie Ning**

**Blue Door, €18.90**

**Reviewed by Joanne Hayden**

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During the Cultural Revolution, one of the main characters in The Bathing Women attends a "denouncement meeting". A teacher, branded a "female hooligan" for having a child outside of marriage, is given the option of exposing her daughter or eating a cupful of shit. "Under the gaze of everyone, she grabbed the teacup with two hands and drank it ...