Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's - Paperbackby Emily Honig (Author), Gail Hershatter (Author) Dramatic and far reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, attention to personal life was regarded as 'bourgeois'; in the post Mao decade, abrupt turns in public policy made discussion of personal life imperative, and nowhere has this been more evident than in the debate