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Mesmerizing! I have always been interested in Chinese history. Most of the stores are heartbreaking but at the same time needed to be told. I want to read more Xinran.
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Absorbing and gut-wrenching all at once - a powerful indictment of China's treatment of women in the Maoist era. ...more
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