text:  The much darker side of that was at the same time as doing all of this and enduring my time with these fascinating women, I also constantly had in the back of my mind the security of my interviewees and the censorship and the surveillance. The experience of it was a mixture of that kind of delight and playfulness and the thinking of the greater political scene that we were in. What do these four stories tell you first about China and the way that it's changed in the last couple of decades?