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In traditional societies, women have become a voiceless group, and oral history research is one of the new methods that has emerged in recent years. The author of this book conducted interviews with 19 Shanghai professional women who had work experience before and after liberation, recorded their personal careers and marriage and family life, understood the changes that took place in them in the two eras, and explored the relationship between the times, society and individuals. The interviews included in the book have representative occupations, including old revolutionaries who have worked underground and ordinary workers; teachers, nurses and accountants, as well as small traders and domestic workers. Shanghai was once a big textile city, and female textile workers accounted for a large proportion. They were both foster workers and child workers, workers in private factories and foreign-owned enterprises, and also included famous labor models after liberation. Their narratives cover all aspects of society, not only providing historical materials for women's history, but also providing precious circumstantial evidence for Shanghai's industrial history and Shanghai's social history.