01207cam a2200241 4500 482272883 TxAuBib 20210209120000.0 910517s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91021006 9780312099435 0312099436 TxAuBib Tsukiyama, Gail. Women of the Silk / Gail Tsukiyama. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991. 278 p. ; 22 cm. In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength. 20210209. Silk Industry fiction. China Fiction. Historical Fiction.