Her life consisted of three marriages, three children, two widowers, and half a lifetime of madness.
Zhang Xiufang was born in Fengnan County, Qidong Province in October 1946. She was literate, worked as an accountant, built a reservoir, was punched, insulted, and was admitted to a mental hospital.
He kept struggling, but fell deeper into the quagmire.
She tried hard to grab something, but her hands always came up empty.
This is the story of one woman, and the story of countless women of that era.
