Pantoum for Chinese Women

I tried to do some research on this poem, only to find that there really isn't that much information about it online.

I did, however, find that Shirley Geok-lin Lim is a Chinese Malaysian woman, born in Malaysia in 1944. She earned a BA in English at the University of Malaya, then, at age 24, came to America to study at Brandeis University on a Fulbright scholarship. After earning her PhD in English and American Literature in 1973, Lim taught at several universities in Asia, including the University of Hong Kong, where she was a Chair Professor of the English department. Lim is now a professor at UC Santa Barbara.

Lim was born to a peranakan mother (a member of the community of assimilated, Malay-speaking Chinese who had lived in the Malay peninsula since the 16th century) and a Hokkien father. As a young child, Lim witnessed the hostility directed toward her mother and other peranakans. The British-declared State of Emergency against the Malayan Chinese Communist insurgents that forced ethnic Chinese to carry identity cards, her experience as an ethnic Chinese in the newly independent (since 1957) state of Malaya, and the May 1969 anti-Chinese riots all profoundly affected Lim. Because of these events and experiences, much of Lim's writing examines her cultural heritage and ethnic identity, while maintaining a strong feminist consciousness.

When looking for information on her poem "Pantoum for Chinese Women," I found the following quote, which is meant to accompany the reading of this poem:

"At present, the phenomena of butchering, drowning, and leaving to die female infants have been very serious."
(The People's Daily, Peking, March 3rd, 1983)