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★“她们的命运里，有你所不了解的中国。”

第一本深度书写中国乡镇女性生活、情感与命运的佳作。罗新、梁鸿、李海鹏、许知远、伊险峰赤诚推荐！

“它蕴含的丰富性将会让盐镇在文学和文化史意义上留下一席之地。”——伊险峰

★知名媒体人易小荷历时一年沉浸式调查，采访近100位当地居民，以12位女性在阶级、城乡、偏见中挣扎求生的故事，展开一个我们身边的、你不曾了解过的真实的底层中国。

★盐镇，一个位于中国“锈带”的边地小镇，也是4万多个正在经历着从传统到现代嬗变阵痛的中国小镇之一。把它作为样本，可以管窥更广阔的真实中国的面貌。

★不被看见、不被听见的她们，是每一个小镇女性，每一个没有走出去的我们的缩影。

早早辍学在小镇叱咤风云的00后幺妹，经济独立却惧怕离婚的女强人，面临家暴威胁却选择复婚的媒婆，历经四嫁开猫儿店的九十老妪……我们说着同样的语言，被同样的历史洗涤，某种程度上她们就是我们。

她们的故事不是历史的注脚，她们就是历史本身。

内容简介

这是一本让读者时刻都会感到触目惊心的书。

在四川南部的古老盐业小镇，女人们过着看似波澜不惊实则惊心动魄的生活。早早辍学在小镇叱咤风云的的00后幺妹，经济独立却惧怕离婚的女强人，面临家暴威胁却选择复婚的媒婆，历经四嫁开猫儿店的九十老妪，她们在21世纪仍旧重复着古老时代的人生轮回，在婚姻和贫困的夹缝里，挣扎求生。

中国有四万多个乡镇，却只有一个北京、上海、深圳。易小荷回到故乡，选择了一个再普通不过的小镇，又在这里选取了12个再普通不过的女人，持续探寻她们对国家、社会、家庭、婚姻的理解，跟随她们再一次经历被“放咸”的人生。她想知道，在这样一个被遗忘的小镇，那些默默无闻的女人们，在新旧交替的时代里，会活出怎样的人生？

历时一年的田野调查，易小荷记录下不被看见、不被听见的她们的生命。在这个如盐一般凝固在时光里的小镇，我们将看到一个不一样的城乡中国。

名人推荐

这是一本有关“愤怒的女性”的书，与约翰·斯坦贝克上世纪三十年代所做的事情一样：触及生活苦难的深处，抱以巨大的怜悯，爱，还有对不公正、对不平等的愤怒。易小荷通过这些女性的故事，告诉我们一个道理是，感慨“命运”是浅薄的，女性愤怒的指向清晰。

无论是国民性的挖掘，还是性别意识的自觉，易小荷似乎承继了民国一脉，这本书让我想起萧红的《呼兰河传》，它带给我的震动也同样如此，它蕴含的丰富性将会让“盐镇”在文学和文化史意义上留下一席之地。

——知名媒体人、作家伊险峰

《盐镇》对于女性如何在困境中度过漫长时光的关注，及其质感丰富从容不迫，都令人想起最好的女性作家们。同时它也是唤醒我们关于“严肃”一词的记忆的真正的新闻报道，是关于女性的系统性困境的一份扎实的证词。它的内容和质量，都让人不仅意识到女性多么令人同情，还意识到她们多么令人尊敬。

——知名媒体人李海鹏

十二个女性的人生，照亮小镇所有的后街，成就一曲不向命运低头的生命颂歌。纵然太史公复生，也不见得会比易小荷做得更好。

——北大历史系教授罗新

易小荷的《盐镇》读起来鲜明、真实、富于质感。小镇中的每一个人都携带着各自独特的生命气息、命运经历从质朴无华的小镇走出来，既呈现了作为个体的血肉气质，也汇入了时代精神的沉渊。在此意义上，小镇、小镇上每一器物和每一个个人都拥有了极为动人的存在感和历史感。每个人的记忆中都有这样一个“盐镇”。

——作家梁鸿

多谢小荷的敏锐与深情，这些总被淹没、忽略的故事才来到我们眼前。古镇上的悲喜命运，令我感慨不已。

——单向空间创始人、作家许知远

阅读《盐镇》，感受盐浸入创口的切肤之痛；虽写女人，却道出底层民众的惨淡人生；结构性困境隐约可见：贫穷，病痛，暴力、懦弱，无奈，冷漠，麻木的根源所在。一个心怀悲悯的媒体人，如此关注下层普通人的生存状态，难能可贵。

——清华大学社会学系教授郭于华

作者简介

易小荷

资深媒体人，作家，四川省自贡市人。文学公众号平台“七个作家”“骚客文艺”创始人，历史类公众号“搜历史”创始人。著有《亲历NBA》《我们是否还拥有灵魂》等。

Editor's recommendation

"In their fate, there is a China you do not understand."

The first in-depth book about the life, emotions and fate of women in rural China. Luo Xin, Liang Hong, Li Haipeng, Xu Zhiyuan, Yi Xiangfeng sincerely recommend!

"Its richness will make Yanzhen a place in literary and cultural history." -- Yi Jianfeng

★ Yi Xiaohe, a well-known media person, conducted an immersive survey for a year, interviewing nearly 100 local residents, and using the stories of 12 women struggling to survive in class, urban and rural areas, and prejudice to launch a real bottom China around us that you have never known.

Yanzhen, a border town in China's "rust belt", is one of more than 40,000 Chinese towns undergoing the transition from tradition to modernity. Using it as a sample gives a glimpse of the broader picture of the real China.

They who are not seen and heard are the epitome of every small town woman and every one of us who has not gone out.

The young sister of the post-00s who dropped out of school early and dominated the town, the economically independent woman who feared divorce, the matchmaker who chose to remarry despite the threat of domestic violence, the 90-year-old woman who opened a cat shop after four marriages... We speak the same language, we are washed by the same history, and in a way they are us.

Their stories are not footnotes to history; they are history itself.

Content introduction

This is a book that will astonish the reader at all times.

In the ancient salt town of southern Sichuan Province, the women lead a life that seems uneventful but thrilling. The young sister of the post-00s who dropped out of school early and dominated the town, the economically independent strong woman who feared divorce, the matchmaker who chose to remarry when faced with the threat of domestic violence, and the 90-year-old woman who married four times to open a cat shop, they still repeat the life cycle of the ancient times in the 21st century, struggling to survive between marriage and poverty.

China has more than 40,000 towns, but only one Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen. Yi Xiaohe returned to his hometown, chose a most ordinary town, and selected 12 most ordinary women here to continue to explore their understanding of the country, society, family, and marriage, and follow them once again to experience the "salty" life. She wanted to know, in such a forgotten town, those unknown women, in the era of the new and the new, will live out what kind of life?

During a year of fieldwork, Yi Xiaohe documented their lives, unseen and unheard. In this small town frozen in time like salt, we will see a different urban and rural China.

Celebrity recommendation

This is a book about "angry women," doing what John Steinbeck did in the 1930s: reaching into the depths of life's suffering with great compassion, love, and anger at injustice, at inequality. Through the stories of these women, Yi Xiaohe tells us that a truth is that feeling "fate" is shallow, and the direction of women's anger is clear.

Whether it is the excavation of national character, or the consciousness of gender consciousness, Yi Xiaohe seems to inherit a pulse of the Republic of China, this book reminds me of Xiao Hong's "Hulan River Biography", it brings me the same shock, it contains richness will let "salt town" in the literary and cultural history of the meaning of a place.

-- Yi Xianfeng, a well-known media writer

"Salt Town" is reminiscent of the best female writers, with its focus on how women survive long periods in difficult situations and its richness and ease. It is also real journalism that awakens our memory of the word "serious," a solid testimony about the systemic plight of women. Its content, and its quality, make one realize not only how sympathetic women are, but how respectable they are.

-- Li Haipeng, a well-known media writer

The lives of twelve women illuminate all the backstreets of the town, achieving a song of life that does not bow to fate. Even if Taishigong revives, it is not likely that he will do better than Yi Xiaohe.

-- Luo Xin, professor of history at Peking University

Yi Xiaohe's "Salt Town" read bright, real, rich in texture. Every person in the town carries their own unique breath of life and destiny experience from the simple and unadorned town, which not only presents the flesh and blood temperament as an individual, but also merges into the sink of the spirit of The Times. In this sense, the town, every object and every individual in the town has a very moving sense of existence and history. Everyone has such a "salt town" in their memory.

-- Writer Liang Hong

Thanks to Xiao He's sensitivity and deep feeling, these stories that are always submerged and ignored come to our eyes. The sad and happy fate of the ancient town makes me feel deeply.

-- Xu Zhiyuan, author and founder of One-way Space

Read "Salt Town", feel the pain of salt immersion in the wound; Although writing about women, but the bottom of the people's bleak life; Structural dilemmas loom: the root causes of poverty, sickness, violence, cowardice, helplessness, apathy, numbness. It is commendable for a compassionate media person to pay so much attention to the living conditions of ordinary people in the lower strata.

-- Guo Yuhua, professor of Sociology at Tsinghua University

About the author

Yi Xiaohe

Senior journalist, writer, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. Founder of literary public number platform "Seven writers", "Poet Literature", founder of historical public number "Search History". The author of "Live NBA", "Do we still have a soul" and so on.