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The daughters matter not much to the mother-in-law or the father awaiting the birth of the son, we see this. In Eve J. Chung’s Daughters of Shandong, what comes as a small shock: the mother who suffers hardships with her brave daughters and finally sails with them to Taiwan but who will only revere the final-born, the son. Behavioral theories, Netflix serials, pop songs, mindfulness podcasts, etc. depend on the transformative power of ordeals, i.e., the before and the after. Something seems off but what.